Loyd Jowers
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Loyd Jowers 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
Jowers at the 1999 trial
Conspiracy theories about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, relate to different accounts of the assassination. King was shot on the balcony of the Lo
Loyd Jowers
…supported by the other witnesses in the restaurant. In 1993, Jowers appeared on the ABC News program Prime Time Live and claimed to have been part of an alleged conspiracy involving the Mafia and the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson to kill King. According to Jowers, the alleged assassin, James Earl Ray, was a scapegoat…
Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964
The Lorraine Motel, a wreath marks where King was standing when he was shot.
James Earl Ray
The Memphis Police Department patch