Loyd Jowers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American restaurant owner
Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1926
Place of Birth: Lexington, Tennessee, United States
Date of Death: 20-May-2000
Profession: restaurateur
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Loyd Jowers
- 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 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 the Mafia and the U.S.
- government to kill King.
- According to Jowers, the alleged assassin, James Earl Ray, was a scapegoat, and was not the only person responsible for assassinating King.
- Instead, Jowers said that he hired Memphis police Lieutenant Earl Clark to fire the fatal shot.
- A Memphis civil trial in 1999 supported this claim, but on June 9, 2000, the United States Department of Justice released a 150-page report rejecting allegations that there was a conspiracy to assassinate King.
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