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
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST, Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, whe
Loyd Jowers
…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 assassination, a…
The immediate aftermath of the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. This photograph was taken within just seconds of the shooting by photographer Joseph Louw, the only known photographer at the scene.
Lorraine Motel, pictured in 2022
The approximate location of King when he was shot on April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel. The location can be seen marked with a white wreath and a tile on the floor of the balcony.
Demonstrator with sign saying "Let his death not be in vain", in front of the White House, after the assassination