Loyd Jowers - Wikipedia
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Loyd Jowers (November 20, 1926 – May 20, 2000) was the owner of Jim's Grill, a restaurant near the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. In 1993, Jowers appeared on ABC's Prime Time Live and related the details of an alleged conspiracy involving ...
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Loyd Jowers, 73, Who Claimed A Role in the Killing of Dr. King - The ...
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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 Saturday at a hospital in this northwest Tennessee town. ... In an ABC television interview in 1993, Mr.Jowers ...
Civil Case: King Family versus Jowers | The Martin Luther King Jr ...
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Transcript. Below is a transcript from the 1999 civil trial held in Shelby County, Tennessee—Coretta Scott King, et al. VS. Loyd Jowers, et al. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF SHELBY COUNTY,. TENNESSEE FOR THE THIRTIETH JUDICIAL. DISTRICT AT MEMPHIS ...
Loyd Jowers' MLK Assassination Conspiracy: Fact vs. Fiction
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Dec 15, 2017 - Why a jury found Loyd Jowers and the U.S. government liable in the MLK assassination — and why that verdict hasn't changed history.
Vii. King V. Jowers Conspiracy Allegations | CRT | Department of Justice
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Aug 6, 2015 - Jowers Trial. 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, and after conducting a year and a half of original investigation, we have concluded that the allegations originating with Loyd Jowers and ...
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Aug 26, 1998 - At the time of the assassination, Loyd Jowers owned and operated Jim's Grill, a tavern below the rooming house where James Earl Ray rented a room on April 4, 1968. Until 1993, Jowers maintained in several public statements that he was merely serving customers in his tavern when Dr. King was shot.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../loyd-jowers.../ae1b4416-eac8-4823-9879-5ced6fb3...May 23, 2000 - Loyd Jowers, 73, the former Memphis cafe owner who claimed he hired someone other than James Earl Ray to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr., died May 20 at a hospital in Memphis after a heart attack. He had lung cancer. Mr. Jowers ran Jim's Grill, a cafe on the ground floor of a rooming house from ...
FBI never investigated man court found culpable for Martin Luther King ...
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Apr 4, 2017 - While some aspects of the investigation into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remain unknown to the public - such as NSA's tracking of James Earl Ray - others are unknowable simply because they were never properly investigated. The most egregious example is Loyd Jowers, who in 1993 ...
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Jowers) was a civil suit brought by agents of King's estate (including his widow, Coretta Scott King) against a man named Loyd Jowers, who claimed to have taken part in a conspiracy to assassinate King. In a criminal trial the guilt of the defendant must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, but in a civil ... Jowers had long asserted he had no involvement in the event before suddenly and bizarrely claiming, twenty-five years after the fact, he had been paid to hire a hit man to kill Martin Luther King. He then repudiated his claims when required to testify to them under oath: December 1993, Jowers appeared on ABC’s Prime Time Live and radically changed his story, claiming he participated in a plot to assassinate Dr. King. According to Jowers, a Memphis produce dealer, who was involved with the Mafia, gave him $100,000 to hire an assassin and assured him that the police would not be at the scene of the shooting. Jowers also reported that he hired a hit man to shoot Dr. King from behind Jim’s Grill and received the murder weapon prior to the killing from someone with a name sounding like Raoul. he did not testify in King v. Jowers, despite the fact that he was the party being sued
Jowers has only confessed in circumstances where candor has not been required by law or where he has not been required to reconcile his prior inconsistencies.
Justice Department’s investigation determined no physical evidence whatsoever supported Jowers’ multiple and conflicting accounts of his involvement in King’s assassination,
verdict was of no real significance given that virtually nothing was at stake (this was not a criminal trial, and the defendant was only being sued for a mere $100 and thus had little motivation for vigorously defending himself), allowing the King family to present a mostly unopposed version of events and guide the jury to return the verdict they desired. As noted in the New York Times‘ report of the verdict, the one-sided presentation of the case allowed for no other result:
Gerald Posner, whose recent book, “Killing the Dream” made the case that Mr. Ray was the killer, said, “It distresses me greatly that the legal system was used in such a callous and farcical manner in Memphis. If the King family wanted a rubber stamp of their own view of the facts, they got it.”
The Justice Department also found the evidence presented in the civil trial to be lacking in credibility:
The evidence introduced in King v. Jowers to support various conspiracy allegations consisted of either inaccurate and incomplete information or unsubstantiated conjecture, supplied most often by sources, many unnamed, who did not testify. Important information from the historical record and our investigation contradicts and undermines it. When considered in light of all other available relevant facts, the trial’s evidence fails to establish the existence of any conspiracy to kill Dr. King.
Little Known Black History Fact: Loyd Jowers | Black America Web
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Apr 4, 2014 - PLAY AUDIO. The shot that killed Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 was presumably fired from Jim's Grill, a café on ground floor of a rooming house. James Earl Ray, King's assassin, was staying there. But in 1993 Loyd Jowers, who ran Jim's Grill, told ABC that he had received $100,000 from a man ...
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