Scroll down for photo(c) of Jesse Owens in Berlin Olympics 2nd 1936 Olympics Poster on-right, Copyright (c) 1999 - 2002, Thornwood þublishers, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED To '36 Photo -- Recognition for Jesse The Olympic Torch lighting ceremony, that plays such important part in the history behind the Flame's visit to Jesse's Alabama birthplace, was introduced in the 1932 Los Angeles games and expanded in 1936 to include an Olympic Torch run from Athens, Greece to Berlin, Germany. Jesse Owens won his four Olympic Gold Medals in the August 1936 Summer games in Germany, that also hosted the Winter Olympics earlier in February 1936. THORNWOOD þUBLISHERS' digitized-and-filtered photo of Jesse seen below is being used in a brochure by John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, designed in 2002 to promote Reviews in American History. Almost the same view has also been used as cover shot for US News and World Report. A US News staff editor corresponded with the Chotank.com producer Avon Edward Foote about copyright status of the image near the time the issue appeared on the Anderson Company newsstands, Court Street, Florence, Alabama, founding city of both Books-A-Million and Anderson Bookland chains. Chotank.com agreed with the magazine's copyright opinion that US News and World Report published a different version of the Owen's photo than the one claimed by Foote. The cover photo that US News published remains in the public domain, outside the filtering copyright protection claimed by Chotank.com for the digital image shown here. In 2005 the International Olympic Committee used several Owen's photos from its own archives including one that appears to be the one at Chotank.com, but lacking Chotank.com enhancements. Wheaties published an artist's rendering of the same picture on the cereal brand's famous box in 2003 to honor Jesse. And in 2008, a giant new billboard on the northbound side of I-65 near Cullman uses the photo to encourage travelers to take the University of North Alabama Highway (#157) to the Museum at Jesse's birthplace. 2nd Jesse Owens' Photograph, Copyright (c) 1999 - 2002, Thornwood þublishers, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED This Chotank Click-Link will take you to the third original photograph from the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. To '36 Photo -- Recognition for Jesse Memorial Olympic Site Reviewed  .  Revised  .  Refreshed 23 September 2010 Our 15th Year