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Apr 23, 2022 · On December 11, 1964, R&B legend Sam Cooke was shot to death by a hotel manager named Bertha Franklin. It was ruled self-defense, but was that really the case? On December 11, 1964, singer Sam Cooke burst into the main office of the Hacienda Motel in El Segundo outside Los Angeles.
After an inquest and investigation, the courts ruled Cooke's death to be a justifiable homicide. His family has since questioned the circumstances of his death. Cooke is included on Billboard ' s 2015 list of the 35 greatest R&B artists of all time.
Nov 13, 2009 · On December 11, 1964, in response to a reported shooting, officers of the Los Angeles Police Department are dispatched to the Hacienda Motel, where they find musician Sam Cooke dead on the...
Jan 21, 2021 · The LAPD marked Cooke's death a justifiable homicide. Speaking in the 2017 documentary Lady You Shot Me, forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril H. Wecht argued that Cooke's death was not...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 (AP)—Sam Cooke, Negro singing star, was shot to death early today by a woman motel manager after he burst into her apartment in pursuit of a Eurasian girl he had met in a...
Mar 3, 2023 · The manager claimed self-defense when she shot and killed Cooke. A jury ruled justifiable homicide. For her part, Boyer would be convicted in 1979 of second degree murder in the death of a boyfriend.
Apr 2, 2014 · Cooke died on December 11, 1964, in Los Angeles, California. Early Life. Sometimes called the father of soul music, singer Sam Cooke first reached the top of the charts in 1957 with "You...
Sep 22, 2021 · Sam Cooke was 18 and Barbara Campbell was only 13 when they met on the South Side of Chicago. Fifteen years later, Mr. Cooke, by then a pop superstar, was dead, killed in a motel tryst gone...
May 28, 2024 · The tragedy of his demise in 1964—he was shot to death at age 33 by a motel manager—is shrouded in mystery. But the mystery has done nothing to damage the strength of his legacy.
Jan 19, 2006 · Cooke's magical voice animated a long string of hits that came to a sudden end, when he was shot and killed in a motel manager's office in 1964, at the age of 33.
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