“The attitude was, ‘Oh well, another n***** got shot’,” Norman Edelen, one of few black LAPD officers at the time, told ...

Unfortunately, Sam Cooke’s legacy has been stained by ... On December 11, 1964, Cooke was shot and killed. And the circumstances surrounding his death are still quite mysterious, considering ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Sam Cooke’s anthem “A Change is Gonna ... S.C. Months after Cooke’s hit record was released, he was shot and killed. However, many believed his death was a set up ...

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 ...