In Reply to: RE: "Race." Jessie Owens and the 1936 Nazi Olympics. posted by Bill the K on July 27, 2017 at 05:00:46:
But one of the end scripts stated that there was no White House invite.
Honors given later, some after his death in 1984.
An interesting dorm room conversation was portrayed between Owens and Long when they agreed that the situations in both countries were about equally screwed. This was in 1936; the war began in 1939.
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- The movie shows his teammates accepting him fairly well. - free.ranger 07:29:41 07/27/17 (0)