Review of ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke

Well done documentary; I enjoyed it. I was a teenager when Cooke was popular and I learned a lot watching this. Let me digress. I believe the public has always had a very hard time accepting that a strange little man named Lee Oswald, who could barely hold down minimum wage jobs, could singlehandedly murder the handsome and vital president of the United States. We look at Cooke and see all that talent and potential and we can't stomach blaming his death on the tawdry set of circumstances of the official police version. But, the facts are that Cooke liked his gin ... a lot ... that he was drinking a lot that night, he was flashing around a wad of cash and he left the bar with a hooker and went to a three dollar "no-tell" motel with her. These are the sorts of bad decisions that can get you killed. Who knows the full truth but I don't find the official version at all impossible. People say "Sam wasn't like that" but I'm afraid he was.