article_title name birth_date death_date
jack kershaw
 jack kershaw 12 october 1913 7 september 2010
jack kershaw

john karl `` jack '' kershaw -lrb- october 12 , 1913 -- september 7 , 2010 -rrb- was an american attorney best known for challenging the official account of the assassination of martin luther king , jr. , claiming that his client james earl ray was the innocent patsy of a mystery man named raul who masterminded the conspiracy to kill the civil rights leader .
kershaw was also a southern secessionist and segregationist who helped found the league of the south .
in 1998 he sculpted a monument of nathan bedford forrest .
