{"id":481610,"date":"2019-01-31T10:28:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=787528"},"modified":"2019-01-31T10:28:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:28:56","slug":"sam-cookes-murder-alleged-cover-up-gets-re-examined-by-netflix-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/sam-cookes-murder-alleged-cover-up-gets-re-examined-by-netflix-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Cooke\u2019s Murder, Alleged Cover-Up Gets Re-Examined by Netflix Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/6355824aw.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nefarious cover-ups, the Civil Rights movement and the music and activism of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sam-cooke\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sam-cooke\" data-tag=\"sam-cooke\">Sam Cooke<\/a> converge in the trailer for the next episode of the Netflix docu-series, <em>ReMastered<\/em>, out February 8th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cooke was shot dead at the age of 33 by motel manager Bertha Franklin, who said the singer broke into her office and attacked her. Because of this, Cooke\u2019s death was deemed a \u201cjustifiable homicide\u201d and Franklin was never charged. However, the singer\u2019s family has long claimed that Cooke\u2019s death was part of a larger conspiracy due to his prominence in the Civil Rights movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The trailer for Cooke\u2019s episode of <em>ReMastered<\/em> offers a fascinating look at the tensions that defined the singer\u2019s career. Though record\u00a0executives wanted him to be nothing more than an entertainer, Cooke invited controversy and threats for championing Civil Rights and refusing to play segregated venues. As one interviewee suggests, the bigger a star Cooke became, the more threatening many people thought him to be: \u201cSam Cooke\u00a0might be the most dangerous to you because he\u2019s already in white American living rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sam-cooke-murder-netflix-trailer-remastered-787528\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nefarious cover-ups, the Civil Rights movement and the music and activism of Sam Cooke converge in the trailer for the next episode of the Netflix docu-series, ReMastered, out February 8th. Cooke was shot dead at the age of 33 by motel manager Bertha Franklin, who said the singer broke into her office and attacked her. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 10:43:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}