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Jesse Owens salutes as he receives a gold medal for the long jump, beating Lutz Long, who gives a fascist salute, 1936 In 1936, the Olympic games were held in Berlin, Germany. Jesse Owens was a star athlete from America who won a gold medal in the long jump. Beside him is German athlete Lutz Long, who gives a fascist salute, as Germany was under a regime controlled by the Nazis.  A lot of time and effort went into the Olympics, as it was seen as a public spectacle to be taken advantage of. He wanted the Olympics in Berlin to display a well-structured, efficient and seamless way of life that Germany had found under his dictatorship. To achieve this appearance, the event was heavily manipulated. The Germans had picked the finest athletes in all of Germany to try to win as many games as possible, all of whom were white, to display a perfect "Aryan" image.  The other Olympic teams involved had people of all different races, which AH embraced. AH realistically saw anyone who was n...

Last public execution in USA, 1936 Rainey Bethea, executed August 14, 1936 at Owensboro, Kentucky, was the last public execution in America. He was publicly hanged for rape on August 14, 1936 in a parking lot in Owensboro, Kentucky (to avoid damage to the courthouse lawn by thousands of people who were expected to attend). Bethea, who was black, confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old white woman named Lischia Edwards but he was never charged with murder. Murder was punishable by death in the electric chair at Eddyville while rape was punishable by public hanging in the county where the rape occurred. Prosecutors opted to go with the rape charge only. The spectacle that attended the hanging contributed to the end of public executions in the United States. Kevin Stanford is one of three juvenile offenders sentenced to death in Kentucky since the Commonwealth brought back capital punishment in 1975. Sentenced to death for a January 1981 murder committed when he was 17 years old...