The Truth About Who Snubbed Jesse Owens- hint: It Wasn't Hitler

For decades films, TV shows, books, historians have claimed that Jesse Owens the 1936 Olympics star was snubbed by Hitler. It is- the big lie.

My First Forensic Historian Work: Jesse Owens

Not counting the writing I did when I was 15 on the history of the role of the CIA in Vietnam in the late 1950's and early 1960s while in military school, my first Forensic Historian work was on Jesse Owens, Hitler and FDR.

What I do that historians and the press avoid is go back to original documents and then check them with declassified files. Seems easy right? Actually, what is easier is to just pass on as gospel what is already published like an 8th grader writing a history paper.

To be a Forensic Historian you must have the ability to admit past versions of history are wrong, that you yourself and your views might be wrong. Very few humans, accustomed to pulling the wool over their own eyes, are capable of doing this. This brings science into history in a way that has never been done before. In science even the most innocuous tests and results are constantly re-examined to make sure time, politics and research money did not taint the results. Why don't we do the same with history?

Which brings us to Jesse Owens. Owens won four gold medals in the 100m, 200m, 400x100m relay and the long jump at the Olympics in 1936, held in Adolf Hitler's Germany. From the moment he stepped off the plane the world media declared he had been snubbed at the Olympics, by Hitler. That has been repeated in thousands of articles, in hundreds of books and textbooks, in documentaries and movies.

But repeating a lie does not make it true.

Hitler didn't meet with any of the medal winners that day as he left early. He did, however from the stands rise to applaud Owens after his victories. Read that again.

So I went in search of FDR praising Owens.

Of FDR greeting him at the White House.

Of any public statement by FDR about Owens. Nothing.

The other U.S. Olympics winners went to the White House to meet with FDR. But no negroes.

Read that again. Segregationist and pro-holocaust FDR only received white winners. Owens was never mentioned by him.

I call that a snub, don't you?

The discovery that Hitler did not snub Owens, FDR did should be the end of the story. A job well done, chalk one up for the world's only forensic historian.

But it isn't.

Jesse and his nazi friend!

Jesse Owens made a friend at the Olympics, Nazi Luz Long. Long, who had been raised in the Hitler Youth, had won the Silver medal for Germany also in Track and Field. I want you to read a letter to Owens he wrote shortly before he was killed in action, and then I will reveal what happened after the war:

”I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father," Long wrote.

”My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me. It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth. If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.

That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer. Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.

And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship. I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse. I think I might believe in God. And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.

Your brother,
Luz”

After the war Owens went in search of Luz's son Karl and shared his pre-war memories of their friendship with him. They became friends and Owens was the Best Man at Karl's wedding. This is a story progressives and liberals can never tell because it exposes FDR and Democrats for what they were. After decades of lying, they probably even believe their nonsense today.

Now you too know the truth. Be seeing you.

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