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- The jury that heard the case took only one hour of deliberations to reach a unanimous verdict: that King was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. They found Jowers responsible, and also found that "governmental agencies" were among the conspirators.
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After four weeks of testimony which involved over 70 witnesses and thousands of pages of new evidence, a Memphis jury unanimously found, on December 8, 1999, that Jowers was part of a conspiracy to kill King, and that the assassination plot also involved "others, including governmental agencies."
Dec 10, 2022 · By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By Cara Johnson. Published December 10, 2022. Updated June 7, 2023. In 1993, Loyd Jowers confessed that he had paid someone to kill Martin Luther King Jr. as part of a high-level conspiracy involving government agencies and that James Earl Ray had been framed.
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December 8, 1999. Verdict. Jury unanimously found Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators (including governmental agencies) liable of conspiring to assassinate Martin Luther King, Jr. and frame James Earl Ray as a patsy. Case history.
Aug 1, 2023 · In addition to Jowers' revealing comments, his actions leading up to his first public disclosure suggest his true motive. For 25 years following the assassination, Jowers alleged no specific involvement in or knowledge of a plot to murder Dr. King.
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...
Aug 6, 2015 · The evidence never linked Jowers or his alleged co-conspirators to any federal agency or the United States military, even though the plaintiffs maintained that Dr. King's assassination was the result of a government-directed conspiracy and Jowers was the only party sued.
Aug 8, 2023 · In December 1993, Jowers appeared on ABC's Prime Time Live and radically changed his story, claiming he participated in a plot to assassinate Dr. King. According to Jowers, a Memphis produce dealer, who was involved with the Mafia, gave him $100,000 to hire an assassin and assured him that the police would not be at the scene of the shooting.
