James W. "Jim" Douglass (born 1937) is an American author, activist, Christian theologian, and investigative journalist.
Douglass was a professor of religion at the University of Hawaii who first engaged in civil disobedience to protest against the Vietnam War.
In 1975, Jim and Shelley Douglass founded Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action to protest against the construction of a Trident missile nuclear submarine base on the Kitsap Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.
[7][8] Douglass wrote the King article after attending, as a Probe correspondent, every session of the Loyd Jowers civil trial in Memphis in late 1999.
The trial was the culmination of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the King family against "Loyd Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators".