'I've Forgiven Him,' says Black student pictured in 1957 photo with Jerry Jones outside segregated Arkansas school.
Smith, who happens to be a lifelong Cowboys fan, said he learned years ago that Jones was one of the faces in the crowd."That was, gosh, 65 years ago. A curious kid,”"I can believe that, that he was just curious,” Smith said."I just looked at it as the past. That was in the past. You don't judge people by the past. You judge them by the future."
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Thursday he was just a "curious kid" when he was part of a group of white students confronting Black students outside North Little Rock High School.Back then, Sarah Davidson was just nine or 10 years old, in elementary school.Davidson is now the incoming president of the alumni association of the former all-Black S.A. Jones High School, which closed in 1970 as white schools across the South were desegregated.
"We're very thankful for Jerry Jones volunteering that information. He is connecting us to history even more,” she said.
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