no, i think it was probably two days, a couple days before the assassination. look at this photo taken just seconds after the gunshot. it shows police rushing out of the firehouse. you can see the roof. there s no one up there. so if the army intelligence agents were not on the roof at the fatal moment, then there could be no photograph of a shooter in the bushes, despite what pepper wants to believe. we have seen the army intelligence unit s records on what it did do in memphis. those files say the first photos the agents took were not until coretta scott king led a memorial march in memphis. four days after her husband s death. that leaves the uncertain story of jim s grill and its owner, lloyd jowers. he was usually drunk.
and spanned it all the way around to the left into the bushes. and he caught the shooter lowering the rifle. and he said it was not james earl ray. all right? definitively. but pepper says he never saw those photos. he says he knew a guy who did, but pepper could never lay his hands on them. those bushes were in the backyard of jim s grill. jim s was a workingman s dive right below the rooming house. it was owned by the now deceased lloyd jowers. i had known lloyd. by then i had known him 20 years. on the evening of the assassination, pepper says an employee went looking for jowers. and she hears this shot, boom. and she stops. and then she continues and she goes to the open door, all of a sudden she sees lloyd running toward her carrying this rifle,
sudden she sees lloyd running toward her carrying this rifle, still smoking. pepper says lloyd jowers didn t actually shoot dr. king, he helped get rid of the gun as a favor to a mafia connection who came to see him. and gave him $100,000 and said, your place is going to be needed for the killing of that nigger, king. pepper believes the mafia was in cahoots with the federal government and local police who wanted king dead. jowers told him as much. it was planned in his place, there were logistical meetings there with police officers, and he was given a role to do in terms of the gun being out there, taking the gun, eventually turning it over. to raoul. again, the mysterious raoul. james earl ray had always insisted a man named raoul, or someone else, must have left ray s belongings behind to frame him. i think i was taken advantage
still smoking. pepper says lloyd jowers didn t actually shoot dr. king, he helped get rid of the gun as a favor to a mafia connection who came to see him. and gave him $100,000 and said, your place is going to be needed for the killing of that nigger, king. pepper believes the mafia was in cahoots with the federal government and local police who wanted king dead. jowers told him as much. it was planned in his place, there were logistical meetings there with police officers, and he was given a role to do in terms of the gun being out there, taking the gun, eventually turning it over. to raoul. again, the mysterious raoul. james earl ray had always insisted a man named raoul, or someone else, must have left ray s belongings behind to frame him. i think i was taken advantage of, i was the some people use a different
something else. it was said to me that while no conclusions could be made, if they were pressed for a conclusion, they would err on the side of it not being the gun. ray never got a new trial. william pepper turned to the king family one last time. they filed a civil case against lloyd jowers and other unknown co-conspirators. all the evidence from the beginning to the end of how martin king was killed and why he was killed and who coordinated the killing came out under oath. in less than an hour, the jury ruled that lloyd jowers, not james earl ray, was involved in the murder. a verdict embraced by all those who believe the true killer has yet to be caught. next, the cia factor. he said he had dr. king s head in his lap.