mars@ihnp4.UUCP (The Man From Mars) (01/18/84)
This is what I know about ol' Sam's death as told to me by an LA Studio musician...... Sam was shot to death in a motel when a "loved one" caught him between the sheets with another woman (gasp!!!!). Now for the best part.... do you know what the title of the last song he recorded?? Answer: "I'm Afraid of Dying" Now I don't know if this is 100% fact or fiction, but for this electronic version of the National Enquirer it seems appropriate. Does anybody work out there??? Waisting my lunch hour away.... The man from mars.
maggie2@iwpba.UUCP (maggie2) (01/19/84)
From the Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll: 'According to the testimony (in the court records), Cooke, at the time married to his high school sweetheart Barbara Campbell, had picked up a 22-year-old woman named Elisa Boyer at a party on th night of dec 10. Although he promised her a ride home, he instead drove her to a motel on South Figueroa in Los Angeles, where he registered the two of them as "Mr. & Mrs. Cooke". Miss Boyer testified that she walked up to the registration desk and asked to be taken home. But Cooke managed to force her into a motel room; there, she claimed, Cooke "began to rip my clothes off." She escaped when Cooke went into the bathroom and escaped with Cooke's clothing. According to her testimony, he pursued her, dressed only in a sport coat and shoes. While Elisa Boyer phoned police from a nearby booth, Cooke pounded on the door of the motel`s manager, 55-year-old Bertha Franklin; demanding to know Boyer's whereabouts, Cooke allegedly broke the door open and assaulted Mrs. Franklin. During the scuffle, Mrs. Franklin pulled out a .22 caliber pistol and shot Cooke three times. When the wounded singer charged Franklin, the motel manager picked up a stick and clubbed him. By the time police arrived, Sam Cooke was dead.' There also is a picture of Bertha Franklin at the hearing.
andrew@inmet.UUCP (01/26/84)
#R:ihnp4:-51300:inmet:6600075:000:256 inmet!andrew Jan 24 09:50:00 1984 Well, he was shot to death in a motel, and he was with "another woman". It was the motel's manager, Bertha Franklin, who shot him, though. See "Rolling Stone's Illustrated History of Rock & Roll" (the first edition, the huge red one) for further details.