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On Oct 8th, 1963, though on tour, Cooke and members of his entourage had been arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace after they made an effort to sign-up in a white motel — an incident reflected while in the song’s 3rd verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-month-aged son, Vincent, who drowned that June, resonates i