Instead, in the early hours of the next morning – 60 years ago this week – Cooke was fatally shot by the manager of the ...

Ahead of his death, Sam Cooke had quite the full life. He seemed to be an at least somewhat admirable person. He was married twice, and paid for his ex-wife’s funeral following a fatal traffic ...

(KTAL/KMSS)—Sam ... began. Cooke had arranged to stay at the Holiday Inn before his arrival, but when he arrived in person, the desk clerk said there were no more empty rooms at the hotel.