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Jesse Owens of Ohio State University wins the broad jump with a leap of 25 feet, 10 7/8 inches as he won four events at the NCAA championships in Chic...

Photo shows the Olympic flag, the flag of the Reich and the swastika flag, waving for the first time over the Olympic Village. (AP Photo)

Gene Sarazen tees off in the third annual Augusta National Invitation Golf Tournament on April 3, 1936. (AP Photo)

This remarkable action shot shows driver Bobby Sall of Patterson, N.J., being hurtled to the Daytona Beach sands as his racing roadster does a bit of...

Portrait of Spirdon Louis, the winner of the marathon run of the first Olympic games in Athens in 1896. (AP Photo)

Johnny Weissmuller swimming in this 1936 photo. (AP PHOTO)

Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl is shown as she documents

German soldiers demonstrate their fitness for boxing during a Nov. 11, 1935 exhibition at the Berliner Sport Palast, a Berlin sports arena, decorated...

While controversy raged in the United States whether they should or should not send representative athletes to the 1936 Olympic games in Germany, this...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security bill in Washington D.C. on Aug. 14, 1935. From left, are: Chairman Doughton of the House Way...

Sprinter Jesse Owens is shown in two different styles of starting a race. The old crouch type of start is shown in the top picture. Below he demonst...

Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit's

Jack Lovelock of New Zealand shown as he won the

Jesse Owens, Ohio State University track and field star, practices for an upcoming meet in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 11, 1935. (AP Photo)

Jesse Owens of Ohio State is shown at Central Intercollegiate Conference Track and Field meet June 7, 1935 as he broke the accepted world broad jump r...

Outstanding track and field athlete Jesse Owens poses in his Ohio State University jersey, April 26, 1935. As a sophomore at OSU he held the world in...

A March 10, 1935 photo of Babe Ruth as a Boston Brave. (AP Photo)

Joe McCarthy, New York Yankees manager, as he looked March 4, 1935 as he reported at the Yankees' spring training camp at St. Petersburg, Fla. to open...

A March 1935 photo of Lincoln Ellsworth, the explorer who flew over the North Pole and was the first to fly over Antartica. (AP Photo)

The staircase rising to the throne room in the royal palace in Bucharest, Romania is shown in a January 11, 1935 file photo. (AP Photo/ J. Berman)

Phil Regan is shown in a December 1934 photo. He is the

Author Upton Sinclair, broadcasts a speech during his campaign for governor of Calif. November 4, 1934. He outlined his EPIC plan to rid the state of...

Col. Fulgencio Batista, chief of the Cuban military establishment, has picked up quite a few medals since his spectacular jump from the ranks a year a...

Ralph Metcalfe of Marquette University, right, equaled the meet record in the 100-meter race by passing Jesse Owens of Ohio State University in the 47...

This photo identified by House Un-American Activities committee as a 1934 snapshot of Whittaker Chambers, was shown to Chambers and Alger Hiss at the...

Katharine Hepburn is shown in this 1934 photo in the film

Students at the University of Havana are forming a revolutionary army to help the government preserve law and order. They have been given arms and ha...

Coming all the way from Hollywood to defend her 220-yard back stroke title, Eleanor Holm of Brooklyn, N.Y., is pictured leaving the water after a prac...

This is a Feb. 27, 1933 photo of Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes in official robes. (AP Photo)

Cleveland, Ohio high school student Jesse Owens, is shown in 1933. (AP Photo)

Film star Jack La Rue, who specialized in portraying gangsters in the 1930s and 1940s, is shown in a 1933 photo. (AP Photo)

This picture shows Pete Des Jardins, noted fancy diver, just after he left the board at a Miami Beach pool in a front jack knife dive on December 20,...

Greta Garbo in Gathenburg, Sweden, Aug. 16, 1932 on the deck of the liner Gripsolm as she strolls with her brother, Sven. (AP PHOTO)

Swedish Actress Greta Garbo is seen in Gathenburg, Sweden, Aug. 16, 1932.(AP PHOTO)

Medal Winner from the Los Angeles Summer Olympics U.S. men diving team, posing, left to right: Harold Smith, who won with 124.80 points; Mickey Rile...

Olympic boxers posing, at Los Angeles Summer Olympics in 1932. Standing, left to right: Santiago Lovell, Argentina, heavyweight; David Carstens, Sou...

The U.S medal winners in the women's high diving event posing at the Summer Olympic Games at Los Angeles, Calif. From left to right: Dorothy Poynton,...

Count Henri Baillet-Latour, President of the International Olympic Committee, closing the Xth. Olympiad August 14, 1932. He is shown making the fa...

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California's Golden Bears, collegiate crew champions of the United States during their famous finish rush to win the eight-oared Summer Olympic champi...

Eleanor Holm, New York swimmer photographed in Los Angeles at the Olympics August 9, 1932 when she broke the world's record for the 100-meter backstro...

This is a August 7, 1932 photo of the winners in the decathlon event of the Olympics after the event in Los Angeles. From left to right are Akilles J...

Babe Didrikson, second from right, leads her USA teammate, Evelyne Hall, right, over the last hurdle to win the women's 80-meter hurdles at the 1932 O...

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The three winners of the 400-meter hurdle event at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles August 2, 1932 are, left to right, Glenn Hardin of the U.S.A., sec...

Officials congratulate the winners of the 100-meter dash at Olympic Stadium, Los Angeles, August 2, 1932 during the Summer Olympics. Left to right ar...

This is a August 2, 1932 photo of the first three finishers in the shot-put event of the Olympic Games at Los Angeles a short time after the event . F...

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An aerial view of the Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles July 30, 1932 at the opening of the Olympic Games where more than 105,000 persons heard Vice Pres...