Jack Kershaw

Male, Deceased Person

1913 – 2010

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Who was Jack Kershaw?

John Karl "Jack" Kershaw 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.

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Born
Oct 12, 1913
Education
  • Vanderbilt University
Died
Sep 7, 2010

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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