# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/loyd-jowers
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:39:34.081Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/loyd-jowers"
name: "Loyd Jowers"
slug: "loyd-jowers"
description: "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 25 years after the assassination of King, Jowers testified that he was in the restaurant at the time of the assassination, a fact supported by the other witnesses in the restaurant."
tagline: "American restaurant owner (1926–2000)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/LoydJowers.JPG"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1926-11-20"
deathDate: "2000-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.626553333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Jowers"
    title: "Loyd Jowers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Jowers"
    title: "Loyd Jowers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Jowers"
    title: "Loyd Jowers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Jowers"
    title: "Loyd Jowers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Jowers"
    title: "Loyd Jowers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Jowers"
    title: "Loyd Jowers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Jowers"
    title: "Loyd Jowers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3293758"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump