"Luz was not a constant topic in our family," admitted Kellner-Long, whose father did meet Owens twice. "There was no scene where the daughter sits on her father's knee and hears the 'heroic story ...

The 1936 Berlin Olympics was the start of a long-lasting bond between the families of American track and field legend Jesse ...

Other chronicles say that, faced with this circumstance, it was Long himself who suggested that Owens mark a jumping position far enough from the board with his training diver so that no one would ...

He was killed in World War II." Owens, though, would continue to correspond with Long's family. In the 200-meter dash on August 5, Owens won in an Olympic record of 20.7 seconds, beating out Mack ...