Editing Sam Cooke (section)

=== Aftermath ===
[[File:Sam Cooke Grave.JPG|thumb|200px|Grave of Sam Cooke in the Garden of Honor at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California]]
The first funeral service for Cooke was held on December 18, 1964, at A. R. Leak Funeral Home in Chicago; 200,000 fans lined up for more than four city blocks to view his body.<ref name=Ebony /><ref name="About">{{Cite web |last=Fontenot |first=Robert |title=Today in Oldies Music History: December 18 |url=http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/Today-In-Oldies-Music-History-December-18.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906092613/http://oldies.about.com/od/oldieshistory/a/Today-In-Oldies-Music-History-December-18.htm |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |access-date=August 31, 2015 |website=[[about.com]]}}</ref>

Afterward, Cooke's body was flown back to Los Angeles for a second service, at the Mount Sinai Baptist Church on December 19,<ref name="Corbis">{{Cite web |title=Crowd at Sam Cooke's Funeral |url=http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/BE063840/crowd-at-sam-cookes-funeral |access-date=August 31, 2015 |publisher=Corbis Images}}</ref> which included a much-heralded performance of "The Angels Keep Watching Over Me" by [[Ray Charles]], who stood in for a grief-stricken [[Bessie Griffin]]. Cooke was interred at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Glendale, California]].<ref name=Ebony /><ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Connell |first=Sean J. |date=March 13, 2014 |title=Here's Where Five Soul Legends Are Buried in L.A. |url=https://www.laweekly.com/heres-where-five-soul-legends-are-buried-in-l-a/ |website=[[LA Weekly]]}}</ref>

Two singles and an album were released in the month after Cooke's death. One of the singles, "[[Shake (Sam Cooke song)|Shake]]", reached the top ten of both the pop and R&B charts. The B-side, "[[A Change Is Gonna Come]]", is considered a classic [[protest song]] from the era of the [[civil rights movement]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 16, 2007 |title=Sam Cooke's Swan Song of Protest |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17267529 |access-date=August 8, 2008 |website=[[NPR]]}}</ref> It was a [[Top 40]] pop hit and a top 10 R&B hit. The album, also titled [[Shake (Sam Cooke album)|''Shake'']], reached the number one spot for R&B albums.

Bertha Franklin said that she received numerous death threats after shooting Cooke. She left her position at the Hacienda Motel and did not publicly disclose where she had moved.<ref name="washington">{{Cite news |date=April 6, 1965 |title=Cooke's killer sues his estate |page=1 |work=[[Washington Afro-American]]}}</ref> After being cleared by the coroner's jury, she sued Cooke's estate, citing physical injuries and mental anguish suffered as a result of Cooke's attack. Franklin's lawsuit sought $200,000 (equivalent to{{nbsp}}${{Inflation|US|0.2|1965|r=1}}{{nbsp}}million in {{Inflation/year|US}}){{Inflation/fn|US}} of [[compensatory damages|compensatory]] and [[punitive damages]].<ref name=washington />

Barbara Womack [[countersue]]d Franklin on behalf of the estate, seeking $7,000 ({{Inflation|US|7000|1965|fmt=eq|r=-3}}) in damages to cover Cooke's funeral expenses. Elisa Boyer provided testimony in support of Franklin in the case. In 1967, the courts awarded Franklin $30,000 in damages ({{Inflation|US|30000|1967|fmt=eq|r=-3}}).<ref>{{cite news |title=Slayer of Singer Gets $30,000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/05/25/archives/slayer-of-singer-gets-30000.html |work=[[The New York Times]]|editor-last=Catledge|editor-first=Turner|editor-link=Turner Catledge|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614115158/https://woodstockwhisperer.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/sam-cooke-payment.jpg|archive-date=June 14, 2023|url-status=dead|date=May 25, 1967}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=June 10, 1967 |title=Will Sam Cooke's widow appeal? |page=10 |work=[[The Afro-American]]}}</ref>{{Inflation/fn|US}}