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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. For the first 25 years after the assassination of King, Jowers testified that he was in the restaurant at the time of the ...
- Restaurateur
- May 20, 2000 (aged 73), Union City, Tennessee, U.S.
- November 20, 1926, Lexington, Tennessee, U.S.
- Alleged conspirator in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Dec 10, 2022 · 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.
- Kaleena Fraga
Jury verdict. 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.
- December 8, 1999
- King family awarded $100 ($175.67 today) they had requested in damages
- November 15, 1999
Aug 1, 2023 · Loyd Jowers owned and operated Jim's Grill, a tavern near the rooming house where James Earl Ray was arrested for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. He changed his story several times over the years, from being behind the counter to being involved in a plot to kill Dr. King. The Justice Department investigative team analysed his statements, interviews, and documents to determine whether there is credible evidence to support any aspect of his varied accounts.
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...
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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....
Aug 8, 2023 · The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice investigated two recent allegations by Loyd Jowers, a former Memphis tavern owner, and Donald Wilson, a former FBI agent, about the April 4, 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The investigation found that both allegations are not credible and that there is no reliable evidence to support them.
