On November 23, David Maraniss and Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post published a story about Dallas Cowboys owner, president, and general manager Jerry Jones, and his presence at a white rally to prevent the desegregation of North Little Rock High in Little Rock, Arkansas. Jones was a sophomore at the school, and he went to be part of the fracas despite his football coach warning him Jones and his teammates that he “didn’t want to see any of you knot-heads near the front of that school tomorrow.”
But Jones went, and was there. He had never made any public reference to that day in the 65 years since, and certainly never since he took control of the Cowboys in 1989. Of course, when the photo was unearthed, Jones had to respond… to a point.
