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On October 8th, 1963, though on tour, Cooke and members of his entourage were being arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace when they made an effort to sign up in a white motel — an incident mirrored in the song’s third verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his 18-month-old son, Vincent, who drowned that June, resonates in the l