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The shooter was the Memphis Police Department Officer, Lt. Earl Clark who he named as the killer.
Jowers named Memphis Police Lieutenant Earl Clark as the shooter. [5] Trial and decision. A nearly unredacted copy of the letter sent to King from the FBI. In 1999, a civil suit alleged that Jowers and others had conspired to assassinate King.
Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman and civil rights movement leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died at 7:05 p.m.
He said the planners included undercover Memphis Police Department officer Marrell McCollough (who now works for the Central Intelligence Agency), MPD Lieutenant Earl Clark (who died in 1987), a third police officer, and two men Jowers did not know but thought were federal agents.
Dec 10, 1999 · The King family and Mr. Pepper maintain that Mr. Jowers later suggested that a white police officer named Earl Clark, now dead, was the shooter. ''That's the killer,'' Dexter Scott King said...
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.
Apr 2, 2015 · Jowars claimed that the shot that killed King came from behind his restaurant and named Memphis cop Lt. Earl Clark as the actual assassin. He further maintained that Ray was not the killer,...
