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On Oct 8th, 1963, though on tour, Cooke and users of his entourage were being arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace after they tried to register at a white motel — an incident mirrored during the song’s 3rd verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-month-previous son, Vincent, who drowned that June, resonates in the f