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Aug 1, 2023 · Civil Rights Division. Jowers' Allegations. A. Introduction. 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. In the late 1940s, Jowers was briefly a Memphis police officer.
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 hospital...
May 24, 2000 · May 24, 2000 12 AM PT. From a Times Staff Writer. 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...
Aug 8, 2023 · These allegations emanate from Loyd Jowers, a former Memphis tavern owner, and Donald Wilson, a former agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In 1993, 25 years after the murder, Jowers claimed that he participated in a conspiracy to kill Dr. King, along with an alleged Mafia figure, Memphis police officers, and a man named Raoul.
Loyd Jowers (November 20, 1926 – 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.
Nov 17, 1999 · Mrs. King was the first witness in the wrongful death civil trial of Loyd Jowers, a Memphis cafe owner, who once maintained on television that he had been part of a conspiracy to kill the Rev....
May 23, 2000 · By Associated Press. May 22, 2000 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. UNION CITY, Tenn. -- Loyd Jowers, 73, the former Memphis cafe owner who claimed he hired someone other than James Earl Ray to assassinate...
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