Legendary Oklahoman Jim Thorpe was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor a civilian in the U.S. can ...

On Friday, the man the town is named for will receive the country’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...

The exact date of Jim Thorpe’s birth is unknown, but it is generally believed that the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States—regarded by many as one of the ...

In 1912, Jim Thorpe walked the streets of those same American cities, past crowds of people straining to see him. He had just won gold medals for both the pentathlon and the decathlon at the Olympic ...

U.S. to Olympic baseball final as Cuban-American Eddy Alvarez becomes sixth athlete in Olympic history with summer and winter medals Alvarez, the third U.S. athlete with medals in both Olympic ...

Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest ... In 1982, some 29 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee officially pardoned Thorpe and presented the medals back to his family, a ...

Show more This special programme explores the sad and controversial life of Jim Thorpe - the American Indian who was the star of the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, where the Swedish King famously ...

Jim Thorpe's story- he was stripped of his medals but they were reinstated 75 years later. This programme looks at the effect that various boycotts and political protests had on the Oylmpics.

Jim Thorpe was arguably the greatest ... In 1982, some 29 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee officially pardoned Thorpe and presented the medals back to his family, a ...

2020 - LA Lakers basketball legend Kobe Bryant dies in a helicopter crash in foggy conditions in the hills above Calabasas, southern California; considered one of the greatest players in the game’s ...

It was because of these two seasons that Thorpe had his Olympic gold medals taken away in 1913 ... towns combined into one and was renamed Jim Thorpe.

When an American Indian named Jim Thorpe won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, legend has it that King Gustav V of Sweden presented him the medal and said ...