Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s oldest son emerged Wednesday from a Shelby County courtroom saying he hopes the nation soon finds closure to lingering suspicions about his father's assassination. Our family position has always been that we are always seeking the truth,'' Martin Luther King III said after listening to trial testimony in his family's wrongful death suit against former Memphis cafe owner Loyd Jowers. Dexter King said. Wednesday's proceedings, however, involved largely a rehash of old details. King lawyer William Pepper called a series of witnesses who recounted the withdrawal of some fire and police personnel in the hours before King's murder from posts near the Lorraine Motel, where he was shot.
Conspiracy buffs view the withdrawals as sinister indications of a plot.