“The attitude was, ‘Oh well, another n***** got shot’,” Norman Edelen, one of few black LAPD officers at the time, told People in 2021. Thankfully, in the decades since his death, Sam ...

Then, it happened. On the morning of December 11, 1964, we awakened to the news that Sam Cooke had been shot and killed. I couldn’t believe it; I was crushed. My hero was gone. The following ...

Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke ... On December 11, 1964, Cooke was shot dead by the manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles ...

God bless.” A Florida native, Moore was first discovered by late R&B icon Sam Cooke, who offered Moore a gig as his replacement in the gospel group, The Soul Stirrers. However, among becoming ...

both had Top 10 hits with Sam Cooke songs later in the sixties, but it is one of the great pop tragedies that we never got to hear anything from the man himself. He was shot dead in rather sordid ...