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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...
Bertha Franklin was the night manager of the Hacienda Motel who shot and killed singer Sam Cooke on December 11, 1964; a Los Angeles coroner’s jury later ruled the shooting a based on Franklin’s claim...
A Los Angeles coroner’s jury concluded Sam Cooke’s death at the Hacienda Motel on December 11, 1964 was a “justifiable homicide,” finding motel manager Bertha Franklin acted in self‑defense after she ...
Sam Cooke visited the Hacienda Motel on the night of December 11, 1964, and was shot and killed there; the motel manager, , claimed she shot him in self-defense and the death was officially ruled a ju...
’s version — that burst into her motel office, attacked her and she shot him in immediate self‑defense — became the official narrative and produced a coroner’s finding of justifiable homicide within d...
The Los Angeles investigation and coroner’s inquest concluded that Sam Cooke’s death was a justifiable homicide: motel manager Bertha Franklin shot Cooke in what she and investigators said was self‑de...
of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles who, on December 11, 1964, shot and killed singer Sam Cooke and told police she acted in self‑defense; a coroner’s jury quickly ruled the death a justifiable homic...
The core allegations against and the after ’s death centered on two competing narratives: Franklin’s claim that she shot Cooke in self‑defense after he attacked her while searching for a woman, and sk...
Law enforcement in Los Angeles treated Sam Cooke’s December 11, 1964 death as a justifiable homicide after a brief LAPD inquiry and a coroner’s inquest that accepted motel manager Bertha Franklin’s ac...