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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.
10 de dic. de 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.
1 de ago. de 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. In the late 1940s, Jowers was briefly a Memphis police officer.
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.
23 de may. de 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...
8 de ago. de 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.
24 de may. de 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 was...