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Jury verdict. The Loyd Jowers trial, officially the King family vs. Loyd Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators, was an American wrongful death civil suit brought by the family of Martin Luther King Jr. against Loyd Jowers, following his claims of a conspiracy in the assassination of the civil rights leader in 1968.
Loyd Jowers (November 20, 1926 [1] – May 20, 2000) was an American restaurateur and the owner of Jim's Grill, a restaurant near the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
Dec 15, 2017 · He claimed the real shooter was a Lt. Earl Clark, not James Earl Ray, and that he had credible witnesses to back him up. When Jowers made his announcement on ABC’s Primetime Live, he named Mafia figure Frank Liberto as the man who ordered the MLK assassination. Jowers claimed that Liberto offered him $100,000 to hire Clark.
Jan 20, 2014 · Loyd Jowers was a Memphis restaurant owner who inserted himself into the narrative about King's death in the course of a 1993 television interview during which he claimed to have been party to...
Jan 18, 2021 · James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty to assassinating King, was renting a room above Jower’s establishment and was allegedly an unwitting scapegoat. The restaurant owner named Memphis Police...
- Kirsten West Savali
Apr 4, 2013 · The defendant in the 1999 civil trial, Loyd Jowers, had been a Memphis PD officer in the 1940s. He owned a restaurant called Jim’s Grill, a staging ground to orchestrate MLK’s assassination underneath the rooming house where the corporate media alleges James Earl Ray shot Dr. King.
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Last week the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. celebrated a favorable Memphis jury verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit against Loyd Jowers, a man the Kings charge was part of a...
