There's new reaction to the explanation by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones about why he was at a 1957 desegregation protest.
this week unearthed a photo showing a 14-year-old Jones in the back of a crowd of white students that was blocking Black students from entering a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
"That was 65 years ago, I had no idea when I walked up there what I was doing, just a reminder to me how to improve and do things the right way," Jones said., Jones was peppered with questions about the photo. It’s from 1957, when Jones was 14. On CNN Friday, Ernest Green, a member of the Little Rock 9, reacted to the photo and Jones' explanation.
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