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Lady, You Shot Me: The Life and Death of Sam Cooke

5.6 95 mins Music   Documentary   2014
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Director(s): David Czarnetzki

Sam Cooke died at the age of 33 on December 11, 1964, at the Hacienda Motel, at 9137 South Figueroa Street, in Los Angeles, California. Answering separate reports of a shooting and of a kidnapping at the motel, police found Cooke's body, clad only in a sports jacket and shoes but no shirt, pants or underwear. He had sustained a gunshot wound to the chest, which was later determined to have pierced his heart. The motel's manager, Bertha Franklin, said she had shot Cooke in self-defense after he broke into her office residence and attacked her. Her account was immediately questioned and disputed by acquaintances.

Casts of Lady, You Shot Me: The Life and Death of Sam Cooke

Sam Cooke

as Self (archive footage)

Zelda Sands

as Self

Al Schmitt

as Self

Eugene Jamison

as Self

Bill Gardner

as Self

Denise Dowse

as Self

Erik Greene

as Self

Cyril H. Wecht

as Self - Forensic Pathologist

Joe B. Kellum

as Self

Anthony Samad

as Self

Dick Clark

as Self (archive footage)

John Antonelli

as Self

Daniel Wolff

as Self

Jamelle Dolphin

as Self

Donald Piper

as Self

Mike McCormick

as Self

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