It didn't take as long as I thought it might to put the info together. In December 1993, Lloyd 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 was not responsible for the assassination. Jowers said that he hired Memphis police Lieutenant Earl Clark to fire the fatal shot. The existence of such a conspiracy, and Jowers' involvement, was supported in the verdict of a 1998 court case which was brought against Jowers by the King family. The allegations and the finding of the Memphis jury were later rejected by the United States Department of Justice in 2000. In 1998, the King family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Jowers and "other unknown co-conspirators" for the murder of King. The King family was represented by attorney William Pepper, who had previously served as the attorney of James Earl Ray, King's formerly accused assassin. After four weeks of testimony and over 70 witnesses in a civil trial in Memphis, Tennessee, twelve jurors reached a unanimous verdict on December 8, 1999 after about an hour of deliberations that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy which also involved "others, including governmental agencies." Mrs. Coretta Scott King commented on the verdict, saying, “There is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. And the civil court's unanimous verdict has validated our belief. I wholeheartedly applaud the verdict of the jury and I feel that justice has been well served in their deliberations. This verdict is not only a great victory for my family, but also a great victory for America." Page includes Investigation and Trial resources: - Coretta Scott King, et al. VS. Loyd Jowers, et al trial transcript (*13 volumes, 2,735 pages*) - Trial Evidence - Department of Justice Investigation and Report - King Family Press Conference on the MLK Assassination Trial Verdict Full report and links posted to http://that1archive.neocities.org/subfolder1/MLK-assassination-trial.html --Mike That1Archive.neocities.org P.S. Bonus link: https://archive.org/details/nationalsecurityarchive?and[]=martin%20luther%20king