Martin "Marty" Glickman was a pioneering American radio announcer known particularly for his broadcasts of the New York Knicks basketball games and the football games of the New York Giants and the New York Jets. He had been a noted collegiate track and field athlete who was a football star at Syracuse University and who was a member of the US team at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. The unexplained, last-minute decision to remove him and one other Jewish athlete from a relay event at the 1936 Olympics has been widely viewed as an effort to avoid embarrassing Adolf Hitler, then the Chancellor of Germany. Since 1933, Hitler and the National Socialist Party he led had been the authors of anti-Jewish race laws in Germany. They ultimately directed the murder of millions of Jews and others in The Holocaust. James L. Freedman has produced a documentary film Glickman that was broadcast nationallly in the United States in 2013. 

August 14th, 1917 in The Bronx  /  Died:   Jan 3rd, 2001