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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.
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.
Dec 10, 2022 · 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.
Aug 1, 2023 · For several years beginning in the late 1960s, Loyd Jowers owned and operated Jim's Grill, a tavern located below the rooming house on South Main Street where James Earl Ray rented a room on the day of the assassination.
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...
Dec 10, 1999 · But with key players dead, with confessions recanted and altered, and with a vast conspiracy alleged but not proved, Wednesday's verdict in the civil trial of Loyd Jowers seems unlikely,...
Aug 6, 2015 · 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.
Apr 2, 2015 · Loyd Towers), a Memphis jury reached a quick guilty verdict in the wrongful death of the civil rights leader, concluding that Jowers and others conspired to assassinate him on the balcony of the...
May 24, 2000 · Loyd Jowers, a controversial figure believed by a Memphis jury and the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to have played a role in the civil rights leader’s 1968 murder, has died. He...
Aug 8, 2023 · Jowers was a civil lawsuit in a Tennessee state court brought by King family members against Loyd Jowers for the wrongful death of Dr. King. The trial concluded in December 1999.
