Kenneth Winston Starr was an American lawyer and judge who as independent counsel authored the Starr Report,which served as the basis of the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He headed an investigation of members of the Clinton administration,known as the Whitewater controversy,from 1994 to 1998. Starr previously served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1983 to 1989 and as the U.S. solicitor general from 1989 to 1993 during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.
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.
The Whitewater controversy,Whitewater scandal,Whitewatergate,or simply Whitewater,was an American political controversy during the 1990s. It began with an investigation into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates,Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal,in the Whitewater Development Corporation. This failed business venture was incorporated in 1979 with the purpose of developing vacation properties on land along the White River near Flippin,Arkansas.
James Guy Tucker Jr. is an American former politician,businessman,and attorney who served as the 43rd governor of Arkansas from 1992 until his resignation in 1996 after his conviction for fraud during the Whitewater affair. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as the 15th lieutenant governor,state attorney general,and as a U.S. representative.
In the United States,a special counsel is a lawyer appointed to investigate,and potentially prosecute,a particular case of suspected wrongdoing for which a conflict of interest exists for the usual prosecuting authority. Other jurisdictions have similar systems. For example,the investigation of an allegation against a sitting president or attorney general might be handled by a special prosecutor rather than by an ordinary prosecutor who would otherwise be in the position of investigating his or her own superior. Special prosecutors also have handled investigations into those connected to the government but not in a position of direct authority over the Justice Department's prosecutors,such as cabinet secretaries or election campaigns.
David Evan Kendall is an American attorney,a graduate of Wabash College,Yale Law School,and Worcester College,Oxford,who clerked with Supreme Court Justice Byron White,worked as associate counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,and has been a partner at Williams &Connolly LLP of Washington,DC since 1981,where he has provided legal counsel to individuals and corporations on high-profile business and political matters.
Michael Chertoff is an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security to serve under President George W. Bush. Chertoff also served for one additional day under President Barack Obama. He was the co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. Chertoff previously served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit,as a federal prosecutor,and as Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15,2005.
William Francis Pepper is a U.S. lawyer formerly based in New York City who is most noted for his efforts to prove government culpability and the innocence of James Earl Ray in the assassination of Martin Luther King,Jr. Pepper has also been trying to prove the innocence of Sirhan Sirhan in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. He is the author of several books,and he has been active in other government conspiracy cases,including the 9/11 Truth movement,and has advocated that George W. Bush be charged with war crimes.
Vanderbilt University Law School is a graduate school of Vanderbilt University. Established in 1874,it is one of the oldest law schools in the southern United States. Vanderbilt Law School is one of the most selective law schools in the United States and has a 14.25% acceptance rate. Vanderbilt Law enrolls approximately 640 students,with each entering Juris Doctor class consisting of approximately 175 students.
Robert Bishop Fiske Jr. is an American trial attorney and a partner with the law firm of Davis Polk &Wardwell in New York City. He was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1976 to 1980 after earlier having served as an assistant in the office from 1957 to 1961.
Julia Smith Gibbons is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Robert William Ray is an American lawyer. As the successor to Ken Starr as the head of the Office of the Independent Counsel he investigated and issued the final reports on the Whitewater controversy,the White House travel office controversy,and the White House FBI files controversy. Before that he was Deputy Independent Counsel investigating former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy and before that Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
James Earl Ray was an American fugitive who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,Tennessee,on April 4,1968. After the assassination,Ray went on the run and was captured in the United Kingdom. Ray was convicted in 1969 after entering a guilty plea—thus forgoing a jury trial and the possibility of a death sentence—and was sentenced to 99 years of imprisonment.
Martin Luther King Jr.,an African-American clergyman and civil rights leader,was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,Tennessee,on April 4,1968,at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital,where he died at 7:05 p.m. He was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience.
Rex Armistead was a private detective,Mississippi Highway Patrol officer,and the leading operative for the since disbanded Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. Later,he was heavily involved as an investigator for the Arkansas Project,a co-ordinated attempt in the 1990s to investigate then U.S. President Bill Clinton. The project was funded by conservative media billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.
Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr. is a Canadian-born American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Formerly,he was an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and a senior trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. He was the chief of the securities and commodities fraud task force in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's office. He was recommended by New York Senator Charles Schumer for nomination to the seat on the Second Circuit that was vacated by Judge Sonia Sotomayor when she was elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States. Lohier is the first Haitian-American to serve as an Article III federal judge and to be confirmed by the United States Senate as a judge.
Daniel K. Webb is an American lawyer and public official. He is the co-executive chairman of the international law firm of Winston &Strawn. He is a former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and previously served as the Special Counsel in the Iran-Contra affair. As the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois,he was the top federal law enforcement official in the city of Chicago on behalf of the United States Department of Justice. As U.S. Attorney,Webb led Operation Greylord and successfully prosecuted 76 corrupt judges,police officers,court clerks,and lawyers.
James Alexander Fowler was an American lawyer who served in various capacities as an Assistant Attorney General and special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General from 1908 to 1914,and from 1921 to 1926. In this role,he either argued or prepared briefs for several notable Supreme Court cases,and was active in the organization of the short-lived Commerce Court. Fowler was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Tennessee in 1898 as well as for U.S. Senator in 1928. He served one term as mayor of Knoxville,Tennessee,from 1927 to 1929.
Conspiracy theories about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.,a prominent leader of the civil rights movement,relate to different accounts of the incident that took place on April 4,1968,in Memphis,Tennessee. King was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel,the day after giving his final speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop". Claims soon arose over suspect aspects of King's assassination and the controversial role of the alleged assassin,James Earl Ray. Although his guilty plea eliminated the possibility of a trial before a jury,within days,Ray had recanted and claimed his confession was forced. Suspicions were further raised by the confirmation of illegal surveillance of King by the FBI and the CIA,and the FBI's attempt to prompt King to commit Suicide.
The Loyd Jowers trial,officially the King family vs. Loyd Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators,was an American wrongful death civil suit brought by the family of Martin Luther King Jr. against Loyd Jowers,following his claims of a conspiracy in the assassination of the civil rights leader in 1968. The jury would eventually decide in 1999 that there was a conspiracy perpetrated by Jowers and other conspirators,including various United States government agencies,to murder King and frame James Earl Ray as a patsy.
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