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Loyd Jowers ( November 20, 1926May 20, 2000 ) was the owner of a restaurant ( Jim's Grill ) near the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

In December 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, James Earl Ray was a scapegoat, and not involved in the assassination.

Jowers believed that Memphis police officer Lieutenant Earl Clark fired the fatal shot.