The status of his team and his personality - an irrepressible showman with a self-image as large as his $11-plus billion net worth - have made him arguably the most influential figure in the NFL. It is no accident that his football palace is popularly known as “Jerry World.” He is an all-hands-on owner who serves as his own general manager and appears in the locker room amid a press swarm after games. With a soft Arkansas drawl that delivers every word as a sweet and succulent morsel, Jones is the singular star of Texas-size glitz. Nothing on television draws higher ratings than NFL games, and no team draws more viewers than the Cowboys. “The Cowboys are America,” Jones said when he bought the team in 1989, and there is no denying that they are the most popular and lucrative sports franchise in the country, surpassing the New York Yankees. The boy from North Little Rock owns the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones is now 80 years old, and his face is among the most recognizable in the country.
This view, taken from near the doors of North Little Rock High, showed White students rushing to stop six Black students from attempting to attend the first day of classes. “I don’t know that I or anybody anticipated or had a background of knowing … what was involved.
Jones said he was there only to watch, not participate. He showed up near the conflict’s epicenter, stationed on the top landing near the school’s double-leaf entry doors, a face in a rear row of the human bulwark intent on keeping people out because of the color of their skin. The coach, Jim Albright, had warned there might be trouble and said he “didn’t want to see any of you knot-heads near the front of that school tomorrow.” He had been bulking up by lifting weights and going through two-a-days since August, trying to make the school’s football B-team. Straeter of the Associated Press, shows a young Jones wearing a striped shirt, craning for a better view, “looking like a little burrhead,” as he said in a recent interview with The Washington Post, acknowledging his presence on the steps that day. Jerry Jones was in the crowd that morning. It overshadowed the ugly events unfolding contemporaneously at Jones’s high school on the other side of the Arkansas River - an episode mostly lost to history, though not entirely. Eisenhower dispatched federal troops to escort the trailblazing Black students past the spitting hordes, is regarded as a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. The story of the Little Rock Nine, when President Dwight D. 9, 1957, during the same month that a higher-profile integration effort was taking place at Little Rock Central High in the capital city a few miles away. The confrontation occurred 65 years ago, on Sept. A voice behind him said, “I want to see how a nigger feels.” The ruffian hostility succeeded in turning away the would-be new enrollees. At one point, a Black student named Richard Lindsey recalled, someone in the crowd put a hand on the back of his neck. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.In a photograph taken at the scene, Jones could be seen standing a few yards from where the six Black students were being jostled and repelled with snarling racial slurs by ringleaders of the mob. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services.
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