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Mrs. Jesse Owens

NPR
Published July 30, 1996 at 12:00 AM EDT

Ruth Owens recalls meeting the queen mary in New Yrok Harbor and her husband Jesse when he came home from the 1936 German olympics, with 4 gold medals.

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