Bert i would like you to read the prologue from the book, for later discussion. Jeremy my pleasure. I shall begin. Just before 9 30 p. M. Central time, in 1955, a handsome townhouse on chicagos south side, owens sat back in a straight back chair. He slipped back his hair, what was left of it. He put finishing touches on what had been an all day job, rewiring his old home. In a few minutes, he would be talking live on tv about his celebrity. More than 20 million americans watched as he spoke from a studio in new york, first with owens and his family, and then leonard bernstein. The 42yearold father of three, Jesse Owens Wade 25 pounds more than he did in 1936, when he turned in the most indelible performance to the olympic games. Conservative jacket, flannel slacks, white shirt, and dark tie, he could have passed for a 50yearold. Not that he was not in good shape. He was, a few months earlier he only less0 yards, than one second than his personal best. He held the personal record in the
Coronavirus the postponement of the plan Olympic Games. Were bringing you a conversation about the 1936 olympics held in nazi berlin. There are so many compelling stories from this moment in history ranging from the personal experience of athletes to the german governments campaign to camouflage its discriminatory policies. Please join me in welcoming todays guests. First dr. Damien thomas, who is the sports curator at the National Museum of africanamerican history and culture. Hi, damian, good morning. Good morning. Thank you for having me. Im excited to participate in this conversation. Glad to have you on and maybe sometime well actually meet in person instead of just through a box on the screen. Our other guest is my former colleague dr. Daniel green. Danny is president of the Newberry Library in chicago, and he also served as curator of the holocaust museums Current Special exhibition americans and the holocaust danny also conducted research for an earlier exhibition about the 193
Good morning. Thank you for having me. Im excited to participate in this conversation. Glad to have you on and maybe sometime well actually meet in person instead of just through a box on the screen. Our other guest is my former colleague dr. Daniel green. Danny is president of the Newberry Library in chicago, and he also served as curator of the holocaust museums Current Special exhibition americans and the holocaust danny also conducted research for an earlier exhibition about the 1936 olympics here at our museum in dc. And so were glad to bring him back to share some of that knowledge. Hi danny i had no. Thanks. How are things in chicago . Things are all right. As much as anywhere. We ask you our viewers to please post your questions for our experts in the Comment Section and well get to as many of them live in the course of the show as we are able. Also if you experience any technical glitches during the course of the show, dont worry about it. Dont stress it will be available to v