While You Were Sleeping: Hitler didn't snub Jesse Owens; FDR did.
Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals for the U.S. at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, tells the story:
“When I passed the Chancellor, he arose, waved his hand at me and I waved back at him. Hitler didn’t snub me. It was Franklin Delanoe Roosevelt who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a…