12 September 2008
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12 September 2008
4x Gold Medalist
1st Sponsered African
American
“The Ambassador of Sports”
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Jesse Owens
1913- 31 March 1980
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Jesse Owens
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James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete.
He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning
four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 meter relay
team.
In 1936 Owens arrived in Berlin to compete for the United States in the Summer Olympics. Adolf Hitler was using the
games to show the world a resurgent Nazi Germany. He and other government officials had high hopes German
athletes would dominate the games with victories (the German athletes did indeed achieve a top of the table medal
haul). Meanwhile, Nazi propaganda promoted concepts of "Aryan racial superiority" and depicted ethnic Africans as
inferior.
Owens surprised many by winning four gold medals: On August 3, 1936 he won the 100m sprint, defeating Ralph
Metcalfe; on August 4, the long jump (later crediting friendly and helpful advice from German competitor Luz Long[5]);
on August 5, the 200m sprint; and, after he was added to the 4 x 100 m relay team, his fourth on August 9 (a
performance not equaled until Carl Lewis won gold medals in the same events at the 1984 Summer Olympics).
Just before the competitions Owens was visited in the Olympic village by Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas, who had
brought a suitcase full of spikes. He persuaded Owens to use them and so was the first sponsorship for an AfricanAmerican athlete made.
On the first day, Hitler shook hands only with the German victors and then left the stadium. Olympic committee
officials then insisted Hitler greet each and every medalist or none at all. Hitler opted for the latter and skipped all
further medal presentations.] On reports that Hitler had deliberately avoided acknowledging his victories, and had
refused to shake his hand, Owens recounted:
“When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed
bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.
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He also stated: "Hitler didn't snub me—it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram."
Jesse Owens was never invited to the White House nor bestowed any honors by Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt
(FDR) or Harry S. Truman during their terms. In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower acknowledged Owens'
accomplishments, naming him an "Ambassador of Sports."
White House rivals bury hatchet at Ground Zero
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NEW YORK (AFP) — White House rivals John
McCain and Barack Obama made a dramatic show
of unity with a visit to Ground Zero on the emotional
seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Suspending their increasingly bitter presidential
contest, McCain and Obama shook hands, then
dropped roses in the memorial pool at the still
unreconstructed site of the former World Trade
Center in Manhattan.
The two candidates met with firemen, police and
others involved in the terrifying aftermath of the
September 11, 2001 attacks in which Al-Qaedahijacked airliners hit and demolished the Twin
Towers.
The truce extended later to a televised civic forum
where McCain praised Obama's "outstanding" early
career as a community activist in Chicago -reversing belittling comments made previously by his
running mate Sarah Palin.
The somber day opened with a simple, but moving
annual ceremony in which the names of almost
3,000 victims from the 9/11 attacks are read out at
Ground Zero.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the
crashing of hijacked airliners into the Twin Towers,
the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania marked the
day the United States "broke."
Choking on tears, victims' relatives read out names
while a string quartet, classical guitar and flute
played mournfully in the background.
At nightfall two shafts of blue light shot upward from
Ground Zero, recalling the lost skyscrapers.
The patriotic upwelling brought rare unity just as
splits deepen in the country ahead of the November
4 election.
Yet politics were never far below the surface and
analysts did not expect the campaign lull to last long.
Democrat Obama said in a statement that 9/11 was
when "Americans across our great country came
together to stand with the families of the victims."
He added: "Let us renew that spirit of service and
that sense of common purpose."
But Obama then pointedly referred to Republican
President George W. Bush's failure to make good on
a promise soon after 9/11 to apprehend Al-Qaeda
chief Osama bin Laden.
"Let us remember that the terrorists responsible for
9/11 are still at large, and must be brought to
justice," said Obama, who McCain has attacked as
having insufficient foreign policy and national
security experience.
Obama also took the opportunity to garner the
support of popular former president Bill Clinton at his
Harlem offices.
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•"I predict that Senator Obama will win and win handily,"
Clinton said, indicating he had finally overcome bitterness at
Obama's defeat of his wife Hillary for the Democratic
nomination.
•McCain, meanwhile, visited the crash site of United Flight 93
in Pennsylvania and praised passengers who assaulted their
hijackers, crashing the aircraft before it could hit any target.
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There is speculation that the Al-Qaeda terrorists had
been hoping to fly into the Capitol, seat of the US
Congress in Washington.
The tribute clearly was meant to underline the
Republican candidate's own history of service as a
Vietnam war pilot and prisoner of war, one of his
strongest selling points with voters.
"I have witnessed great courage and sacrifice for
America's sake," McCain said, "but none greater
than the sacrifice of those good people who grasped
the gravity of the moment, understood the threat, and
decided to fight back at the cost of their lives."
He declared himself "in awe" of the mid-skies
uprising.
At Ground Zero, survivors, who wore white ribbons
pinned to their chests, often broke off to add brief
tributes as they read the names of dead relatives.
One fought to control himself as he condemned the
"cowardly men" who killed his loved one.
A woman managed a smile as she called to her
deceased husband Chuck, saying: "Until we meet
again may God hold you in the palm of his hands."
There were also emotional scenes at the Pentagon,
where thousands joined Bush and US Defense
Secretary Robert Gates to dedicate the first
September 11 memorial.
A Marine Corps bugler played taps from the roof
where firefighters had unfurled a US flag while the
building burned after the attack.
Bureaucratic wrangling has continuously delayed
plans to build a replacement for the World Trade
Center, a failure that symbolizes popular frustration
with the inability to catch bin Laden and extricate
troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The first steel beams for a planned Freedom Tower
at the site went in only this week.
1 million in Texas ordered to leave ahead of
Ike
Huge hurricane could make landfall Friday night along state's coast
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HOUSTON - Cars and trucks streamed inland and
chemical companies buttoned up their plants
Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the
heart of the U.S. refining industry and threatened to
send a wall of water crashing toward Houston and
Galveston.
Nearly 1 million people along the Texas coast were
ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm, which was
expected to strike late Friday or early Saturday. But
in a calculated risk aimed at avoiding total gridlock,
authorities told most people in Houston — the
nation's fourth-largest city — to just hunker down.
The storm is so big, it could inflict a punishing blow
even in those areas that do not get a direct hit.
Forecasters warned that because of Ike's size and
the state's shallow coastal waters, it could produce a
surge, or wall of water, 20 feet high, and waves of
perhaps 50 feet. It could also dump 10 inches or
more of rain.
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“It’s a big storm. I cannot overemphasize the
danger that is facing us,” Gov. Rick Perry said
at a news conference. "It's going to do some
substantial damage. It's going to knock out
power. It's going to cause massive flooding."
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Ike is huge, taking up nearly 40 percent of
the Gulf of Mexico. The National Hurricane
Center said tropical storm-force winds of at
least 39 mph extended across more than 510
miles, and hurricane-force winds of at least
74 mph stretched for 220 miles. A typical
storm has tropical storm-force winds
stretching only 300 miles.
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Because of its great size, storm surge and
gigantic waves are the biggest risk, said Hugh
Willoughby, former director of the federal
government's hurricane research division. The
larger the storm, the longer it hits and the
higher waves can build.
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Traffic was building on roadways leading away
from low-lying areas in Galveston County, and
officials urged residents to finish storm
preparations quickly. Some gas stations were
running out of fuel as residents scurried to
leave.
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Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas on
Thursday ordered a mandatory evacuation for
the entire island on which the city sits. An
earlier order had covered just the west side of
the island, which is unprotected by a seawall.
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“This is a very hard call for me to make but
our intent is to save lives,” she said. “We
believe it is best for people to leave.
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City Forgets Location Of Time Capsule
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ELKHART, Ind. -- Call it the time capsule that time
forgot.
A city committee voted recently to open a time
capsule buried in 1958, when the city was
celebrating its centennial. The plan was to display
the items, then add modern ones and rebury it
until 2058.
Trouble is, no one seems to know exactly where
the capsule is.
Several committee members thought the capsule
was buried in a park -- but the capsule there was
buried in the 1970s to commemorate the U.S.
bicentennial celebration.
Committee member Paul Thomas doubts the 1958
capsule exists since it wasn't mentioned in
detailed committee meeting minutes from that
year or an extensive centennial brochure.
Mary Jo Weyrick, the city council's administrative
assistant, tracked down one resident who
remembers the celebration 50 years ago and said
the capsule may be buried on the corner of Main
and High streets.
If it's there, it may not be dug up any time soon
because that stretch of sidewalk was recently
replaced as part of a streetscaping project.
Meanwhile, the city is still planning to create a
2008 time capsule. Weyrick said she will note the
new capsule's location in city council records, the
public library and anywhere else people might look
for that information in the future.
"If there's intelligent life on this planet in 2058,
they won't have to go through this same
exercise," she said.
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Daily Spark
If you were to put
something in a time
capsule for KPMS
what would you
want to put in there
and why?
Give an example of
a primary source?
Diaries or artifacts, Letter
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Today
Jamestown
 Powhatan Confederacy
 War in Virginia
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Background
• In 1605 a company of
English merchants asked the
crown to found a new
settlement in North America.
They name the Settlement
Virginia.
• King James granted the
request and promised the
London Company “ all the
lands…rivers…and goods”
on Virginia’s coast.
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Company Colonies
• They wanted to start a
settlement without
depending on the wealth of
just one person. Instead,
investors formed a jointstock company, which
allowed a group to share the
cost and risk of founding a
colony.
• Colonies formed in this way
were called company
colonies.
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A Promise
• To attract investors and
settlers, the London
Company printed
advertisements praising
Virginia.
• The promise of such
wealth attracted
adventurers and people
who suffered economic
hardship in England.
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“The land yields..[an] abundance of
fish, infinite store [endless supply] of
deer, and hare, with many fruits and
roots..there are hills and mountains
making a sensible offer of hidden
treasure, never yet searched.”
Jamestown
• On April 26, 1607, the first of
three ships sent by the
London Co. arrived off the
Virginia coast. The fleet
brought 105 male colonists
to found a settlement.
• The ships sailed into the
Chesapeake Bay and up the
James River, about 40 miles
upstream, the colonists
founded their first settlement,
named Jamestown after their
king.
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Starting a Colony
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• The men who came to build
Jamestown were poorly
prepared to start a
settlement.
• Most wanted were
adventurers wanting to make
their fortune and then
returning to England.
• Only one man had a vision
of building a future in the
new world, Capt. John
Smith.
The Colonists
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• Smith complained that “ten
good workmen would have
done more work in a day
than ten of these colonists in
a week.”
• Very few colonists had
farming experience or useful
skills such as carpentry.
• Jamestown was also a poor
location for a settlement.
The Settlement
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• The colony was surrounded
by marshes full of diseasecarrying mosquitoes.
• The river water was also too
salty to drink safely. These
conditions proved deadly.
• By winter, 2/3 of the original
colonists had died.
• Those that survived were
hungry and sick.
John Smith
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• The situation
improved when
John Smith took
over the colony and
forced everyone to
work and build
better housing.
Powhatan Confederacy
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• The colonists also received
help form the Powhatan
Confederacy.
• Wahunsonacock led an
alliance of Algonquian
Indians.
• They taught the colonists to
grow corn.
• The relationship between the
Powhatan and the colonists
was not entirely peaceful,
the colonists took food from
the Powhatans by force.
1609
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• In 1609, 400 new settlers
arrived and John Smith had
to leave for England.
• Without strong leadership
the colony began to starve,
by 1610 only 60 people were
left alive.
• Jamestown was a failure to
the London Company.
John Rolfe
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• Colonist John Rolfe helped
solve the problem in 1612.
• Tobacco grew well in Virginia
and smoking tobacco was
big in England.
• Jamestown began to grow
tobacco and sell it in
England. Jamestown began
to make many colonists rich.
Tobacco
• With the success of
Tobacco, individual
colonists began to
purchase land.
• Land ownership
attracted new
settlers and helped
the colony survive.
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War in Virginia
• John Rolfe married
Pocahontas,
Wahunsonacock’s
daughter, in 1614.
• The marriage
helped relations
between the colony
and the Powhatans.
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A Colony is Born
• The colonist’s
tobacco farms were
so successful that
many wanted to
move into Indian
lands.
• As the colony grew,
the Indians and
colonists started to
fight.
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Death of Rolfe
• In 1622, colonists
the Powhatan
leader. They
responded by killing
many settlers.
• Among the dead
was John Rolfe.
• Fighting between
the two lasted for
the next 20 years.
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The War
• The war in Virginia
showed the London Co.
showed that they could
not help its colonist.
• The lack of supplies
and military support
persuaded the king to
make Jamestown a
royal colony and
protected by the king.
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