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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.
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.
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 · Loyd Jowers, who owned a restaurant near the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, confessed in 1993 that he had paid someone to kill the civil rights leader. A federal court found him liable for King's death, but many doubted his story and the verdict.
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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...
Aug 6, 2015 · The report analyzes the evidence presented in a wrongful death civil action filed by Dr. Pepper on behalf of Dr. King's family against Loyd Jowers, who allegedly participated in a conspiracy to assassinate Dr. King. It concludes that the evidence is not credible and does not support any government involvement in the assassination.
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Aug 8, 2023 · Loyd Jowers, a former Memphis tavern owner, claimed in 1993 that he participated in a plot to kill Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. The Justice Department investigated his allegations and found them to be untrue and contradictory.
