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Sam Cooke was shot and killed on December 11, 1964, at the Hacienda Motel in South Central Los Angeles; the motel manager, Bertha Franklin, said she shot him in after Cooke allegedly attacked her, and...
Reporting and declassified documents show a web of contacts between Contra-linked figures and known drug traffickers in the 1980s, and journalist Gary Webb’s 1996 “Dark Alliance” series argued those l...
Police and coroner records from the night of December 11, 1964 concluded that Sam Cooke was shot and killed at the Hacienda Motel in South Central Los Angeles and that the killing was ruled justifiabl...
Reporting beginning with Gary Webb’s 1996 San Jose Mercury News series alleges that CIA-linked Contra networks helped funnel cheap cocaine into South Central Los Angeles and Compton, accelerating the ...
There is no credible, documented evidence that the "gave" Freeway crack cocaine; independent investigations and official reviews found no direct CIA relationship with Ross, even as contemporaneous rep...
The Los Angeles Police Department dispatched officers to the Hacienda Motel after a reported shooting, found Sam Cooke dead, and carried out an investigation that led to a coroner’s inquest and an off...