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Leonard Greene: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he was ‘just looking’ in 1957 Little Rock school desegregation photo, what is he doing now?

On the same day the New York Giants lost to the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving in what was the most watched regular-season NFL game ever, an embarrassing photo surfaced of the owner of what people like to call America’s Team.

In the picture — which is 65 years old, by the way — a young Jerry Jones can be seen standing behind a mob of white students blocking the path of Black students trying to integrate a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Jones, all these years later, insists he wasn’t part of the mob, that he was just looking on.

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