found: His The Jesse Owens story, 1970.
found: Sabin, F. Jesse Owens, Olympic hero, c1985: CIP t.p. (in title, Jesse Owens) galley (d. 3/30/80)
found: IMDb, Feb. 21, 2007 (Jesse Owens, b. Sept. 12, 1913; d. Mar. 31, 1980)
found: New Columbia encyc., 1993 (Owens, Jesse; b. Alabama; also called John Cleveland Owens, although his original name was said to be simply J.C. Owens)
found: Wikipedia, WWW, Aug. 30, 2011 (James Cleveland Owens, nicknamed J.C., which was turned into Jesse; American track and field athlete; born in Oakville, Alabama; attended Ohio State University; died in Tucson, Arizona)
found: jesseowens.com, Aug. 30, 2011 (James Cleveland, or J.C., until his schoolteacher turned it into Jesse; won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany)