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Sep 29, 2024 · Updated October 11, 2024. 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?
I would say within the community there is not a single person that believes that Sam Cooke died as he is said to have died: killed by a motel owner at a cheap motel in Los Angeles called the Hacienda which he had gone to with a prostitute named Elisa Boyer.
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...
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Feb 10, 2019 · Sam Cooke death: How did he pass away and how old was he? On December 11, 1964, aged jus 33, Sam Cooke was shot and killed by Bertha Franklin, the manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, California. The courts ruled that Cooke's death was a justifiable homicide.
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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 from his injury, which the manager claimed was inflicted in self-defense. It was later ruled justifiable homicide. Thousands turned out to mourn the legendary singer.
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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...
