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"Jesse Owens" premiered on PBS's American Experience on May 1

Tom Phillips of OBT Music scored "Jesse Owens" which premiered on PBS's
American Experience on May 1. The film covers Owens' life as a college track star, an Olympic hero, and the his financial problems after the Olympics due to the racial inequities of the times. America virtually discarded and tossed aside the Olympic hero who had stood up to and shattered Hitler's Aryan supremacy assertion.