As good as gold, Jesse Owens changes history in the dramatic “Jesse Owens Breaks the 200 Metre Record”. Grandson of a slave and son of a sharecropper, Owens (1913 – 1980) was raised in a Cleveland ghetto. An extraordinary athlete, he gained national acclaim when he equaled the 100-yard dash world record in high school. In college, Owens shattered three world records and tied a fourth. Bravely entering Nazi Germany’s 1938 Olympics, Owens set three records and became the first American winner of four gold medals in a single Olympics.