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Show ''H Where PARADE listens in as many of whom have never met-a- sk each other about fame, family and fortune... the same things many of us would ask if we had the chance. Here's Olympic legend Jesse Owens on the phone with skating champion JoJo Starbuck JOJO: Jesse, first of all, let me say what an honor it is for me to get to talk to you I'm so in awe of the humble beginnings that you came from and of the tremendous heights that you've reached in your life How do you think your life would have been different today if you had been raised in a very wealthy, secure household? JESSE: You know, I've never had financial security, but we had a lot of emotional security don't think it's a question of whether you are living in an affluent neighborhood or home it all depends on the kind of home it is was born in Alabama, and my father was a sharecropper But he never allowed my sisters to work in the fields They stayed home with my mother, cleaning house That was their job The boys, of course, worked in the cotI I ton fields When I was 7 years old, I had a quota to pick of 100 pounds of cotton every day One hundred pounds of cotton is a lot of cotton1 But when we came home at night and sat around the dinner table, we held hands and gave thanks to Cod. That's the kind of family it was JOJO: wonder if your success was I stimulated by the caring and warmth that nurtured you in your childhood? Even though you didn't have material things, you had so much of what really counted JESSE: Let me ask you something Do you prefer to be called Mrs Bradshaw? JoJo is married to Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw J00:0h no, you can call me whatever you want think motivation JESSE: Now JoJo. comes down to two things First of all, it emanates from home from the love, obedience and respect you are taught Secondly, as talk to children, find that everybody has to have something to believe in Everybody must have a dream It's mighty important to have I I JoJo Starbuck I an attitude that assumes you're able to reach your goal JOJO: That was basically true of me Every day when I came home, more times than not I was very depressed because my ballet teacher would have screamed at me, my partner would have screamed at me, and so would my skating coach and all the teachers at school I'd come home and cry and want to quit But my mother would constantly build me up She'd tell me how beautiful and talented I was even though wasn't, by any means She kept telling me that until my batteries were recharged Plus, the father of my skating oart ner, Ken Shelley, would always make little plaques that we'd put on our walls every year in our bedrooms He d write in fancy letters, "Four small goals for JoJo Starbuck'' and "Four small goals for Ken Shelley " I was that encouragement and faith, and those goals to reach for, that It really gave us purpose for getting up and going at it every morning think it's also important to JESSE: have someone to walk in the footsteps of When was 1 3 years old, a man named Charlie Paddock came to our school He had been in the 1920 Olympics, and he was known as the world's fastest human being wanted to be just like him All of us you, Bradshaw, all of us who other people read about and talk about have a responsibility to walk 10 feet tall And know fame is burdensome One of the biggest problems faced was after the 193fc Olympics in Berlin When came back to this country, was I I I I I I I billed as a hero But a few days after the ticker tape parades were over. I began to realize that was relegated to the back of the bus I couldn t eat in first class restaurants anymore I couldn t stay in first class hotels because of the' social structure at that time But with all I continued 20 PAKAOI II HRUAKY 10 lKI0 |