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1. www.historicalblindness.com › blogandpodcastBlind Spot: The Jowers Affair — Historical Blindness

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   Feb 26, 2019 · Another was one Bobbie Spates, a waitress at Jim’s Grill, who said Jowers had told her the day after the assassination that he’d found the murder weapon. And finally, there was Bobbie’s sister, Betty, a 16-year-old girl and Loyd Jowers’s erstwhile lover who worked across the street from the grill at a paper company.

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3. www.justice.gov › crt › jowers-allegationsCivil Rights Division | Jowers' Allegations

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   Aug 1, 2023 · We found no corroboration for Jowers' allegation that he brought a rifle through the backdoor of the tavern immediately after the shooting, except a single witness -- Betty Spates. At the time of the assassination, Spates was 17 years old, Jowers' girlfriend, and a part-time waitress at Jim's Grill.

4. www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1994/09/24-mnCOLUMN ONE : The Killing of Dr. King Revisited : A quarter ...

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   Sep 24, 1994 · Key to Ray’s case are Loyd Jowers and Betty Spates. Jowers, now 67, is a one-time Memphis police officer and taxi company owner who admits to playing a role in the murder, although in a ...

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   Mar 28, 1994 · Betty Spates, a former Memphis restaurant worker, has implicated a man other than James Earl Ray in the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The affidavit filed in Nashville, Tenn., by...

6. www.justice.gov › crt › vii-king-v-jowers-conspiracyCivil Rights Division | Vii. King V. Jowers Conspiracy ...

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   Aug 6, 2015 · Vii. King V. Jowers Conspiracy Allegations. A. The King v. Jowers Trial. In November 1999, trial commenced in King v. Jowers, a wrongful death civil action filed by Dr. Pepper on behalf of Dr. King's wife and children. Jowers was the only defendant and thus the only other party to the lawsuit. At the conclusion of the nearly four week trial ...

7. archive.seattletimes.com › archiveMartin Luther King, Jr.: Was The Killer Caught? | The Seattle ...

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   Jan 14, 1996 · In 1993, Jowers was under pressure because a former waitress at the restaurant, Betty Spates, implicated him in the killing. "I remember hearing a sound like a firecracker going off and...

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   Who was Betty Spates?

   • The first was Jowers, who related his account of hiring a hit man and receiving the rifle from him after the shooting. The second was Betty Spates, Jowers' long-time associate and former girlfriend, who said she observed Jowers holding and disassembling a rifle immediately after the shooting.

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   Why did Betty Spates put the rifle in Jowers's possession?

   • Betty Spates also put the rifle in Jowers’s possession, for she said she went to the restaurant that afternoon and saw him on his knees disassembling it. Moreover, Betty corroborated the claims that Jowers had an influx of money, for she claimed to have seen a great deal of cash secreted away in a disused stove a week prior to the King slaying.

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   Did Betty Spates see money in a stove before King v Jowers?

   • While Balfour testified in King v. Jowers, she said nothing about seeing money in a stove at any time. Betty Spates is the only witness who has ever claimed to have seen a large amount of money in the stove prior to the assassination. However, as discussed in Section IV.D.1.a. (3) above, she is unreliable.

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   Who was Loyd Jowers?

   • This man was one Loyd Jowers. Sixty-seven years old at the time of his television appearance, Jowers was the owner of Jim’s Grill, the restaurant beneath the rooming house that served as a sniper’s perch to the assassin.

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9. www.nytimes.com › 2000/05/23 › usLoyd Jowers, 73, Who Claimed A Role in the Killing of Dr. King

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   May 23, 2000 · Loyd Jowers, the former Memphis cafe owner who maintained that he had hired someone other than James Earl Ray to assassinate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died on Saturday at a hospital...