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From: maggie2@iwpba.UUCP (maggie2)
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Subject: Re: The Death of Sam Cooke
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Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 14:33:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 19 14:33:01 1984
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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.