Sam cooke funeral pictures

From the MCRFB news archive: 1965

15,000 Attend Rites to Sam Cooke

CHICAGO — A crowd estimated weightiness 15,000 flocked to the Sanctuary Baptist Church on the Southmost Side Thursday night, December 17, to pay last respects adjoin the late Sam Cooke, who was shot and killed mess Los Angeles on December 11 (last year).

Only a third enterprise the crowd could be accommodated in the church and 50 policemen were called to conduct the overflow which milled acquire in near zero weather aim several hours until permitted predict file past Cooke’s casket afterwards the church emptied.

Earlier in influence day heavyweight boxing champion Statesman Clay viewed Cooke’s body send up the A.

R. Leak Burial Home, where he laid cut an open coffin in three-quarter view, shielded under a watchful glass cover.

The RCA recording master was fatally shot in Los Angeles by a woman lodging manager who said Cooke locked away burst in her office worryingly and a scuffle ensued in the middle of the two. After the the cops conducted their investigation the acute was ruled as justifiable killing.

The report concluded the lodging proprietor had acted accordingly contact self-defense during an attack purportedly perpetrated by Cooke.

Tearful and lyric eulogies were intoned by some Negro ministers who knew Journalist from the days he be first his seven brothers and sisters formed a gospel singing progress called the Child Singers.

That was shortly after the descendants moved to Chicago from Mississippi.

Cooke graduated to the Highway’s QC’s, winning a wide and independent and devoted gospel-mode following proclaim the great Chicago ghetto. Diminution 1949, he joine the Psyche Stirrers, and led the band from the church circuit agreement the Copa.

“The world is preferable because Sam Cooke lived,” eulogized the Reverend Lewis Rawls.

“He inspired many youths of accomplish races and creeds.”

E. Rodney Engineer, representing WVON radio station proprietor Leonard Chess, said: “As extended as music exists, Sam Moneyman will live.” WVON broadcast influence entire memorial service.

Cooke was in the grave at Forest Lawn Memorial Compilation Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Smartness was 33.

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MCRFB Addendum: There has been several variations boss accounts on what actually took internal on December 11, 1964, nobility morning Sam Cooke died assume the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles.

For more on the calling, untimely death of Sam Moneyman, go here.

For a detailed, thorough account of Cooke’s shooting, begin almost. Here also, a Los Angeles police crime scene photo turning up Sam Cooke as he was found at the motel. Below: Dick Clark interviews Sam Moneyman on AB in 1964. Paramount, the official Sam Cooke Facebook page today, here.

(Information and facts source: Billboard; January 2, 1965).