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Aug 1, 2023 · 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.
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.
Sep 24, 1994 · Betty Spates thought it was a car backfiring, the muffled pop she heard seconds before her lover rushed in. He scrambled into the kitchen from outside, white as a sheet, she says, hair standing...
Jan 14, 1996 · There's the saga of Loyd Jowers, who at the time of the assassination owned Jim's Grill, a Memphis greasy-spoon whose back yard faced the Lorraine Motel balcony where King was shot. In 1993,...
Mar 31, 2024 · Betty Spates, a waitress at Jim’s Grill and girlfriend of Jowers, says she saw him rush into the back of the Grill through the back door seconds after the shot, white as a ghost and holding a rifle, which he then wrapped in a tablecloth and hid on a shelf under the counter.
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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...
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Aug 6, 2015 · Jowers, and after conducting a year and a half of original investigation, we have concluded that the allegations originating with Loyd Jowers and Donald Wilson are not credible.