FWIW I started reading abt this as a kid after seeing the 1984 TV movie The Jesse Owens Story, which I do prefer to the feature film Racehttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/860914977489776642 …
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The core event of the 2nd half of the 1984 movie is Jesse Owens being flown out by the IOC to speak against the Black Power salute in 1968
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Tommie Smith said he tried to write to Owens and open a dialogue after all that died down bc Owens had always been one of his heroes
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