ReMastered.The.Two.Killings.Of.Sam.Cooke.2019.WEB.x264-CRiMSON Subtitles

At 00:00:19,894, Character said: People.

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At 00:00:54,137, Character said: Sam had that magic voice.

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At 00:01:07,817, Character said: Sam is the father of
modern soul music. Absolutely.

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At 00:01:14,491, Character said: This is Sam singing to a black audience.

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At 00:01:16,659, Character said: It's a vastly different kind of Sam Cooke
than the mainstream,

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At 00:01:20,121, Character said: meaning white people,
have become accustomed to.

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At 00:01:31,174, Character said: People remember Sam Cooke
as a pristine Frank Sinatra wannabe.

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At 00:01:36,179, Character said: But in reality,
he was a complicated black man

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At 00:01:39,599, Character said: in a complicated world.

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At 00:01:41,976, Character said: Record companies
really did not want a black man

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At 00:01:45,480, Character said: talking about issues
that were going on in the country.

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At 00:01:48,650, Character said: They wanted him to be an entertainer
and nothing more,

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At 00:01:51,111, Character said: and that was never gonna be enough
for Sam Cooke.

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At 00:02:01,830, Character said: In the times where everything
was so oppressive,

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At 00:02:04,374, Character said: he broke through a lot of color barriers
and wasn't afraid to be the first.

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At 00:02:09,336, Character said: Empowerment... this is what drove him
to talk with Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali.

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At 00:02:14,968, Character said: He was so unafraid.

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At 00:02:16,761, Character said: If you afraid, you couldn't be
hangin' out with Malcolm, but...

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At 00:02:20,056, Character said: the FBI might find a way
to get rid of you.

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At 00:02:22,642, Character said: These were the early stages
of black power.

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At 00:02:25,019, Character said: That black male energy
that Sam Cooke possessed,

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At 00:02:27,772, Character said: unfortunately, for some people in power
in this country,

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At 00:02:30,150, Character said: represented a threat
that had to be stopped.

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At 00:02:33,653, Character said: This very mysterious death was just
the most improbable death for Sam Cooke.

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At 00:02:38,324, Character said: What happened? Why was he there?
And who was this woman he was with?

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At 00:02:41,327, Character said: And why'd he get shot?
All those become bigger questions

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At 00:02:44,455, Character said: than "What was he on the edge
of achieving?"

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At 00:02:48,042, Character said: It's a double murder.

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At 00:02:49,544, Character said: It's the murder of the physical being
who was Sam Cooke,

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At 00:02:52,672, Character said: but there's also the murder of his legacy.

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At 00:03:24,329, Character said: One of the biggest shocks
I ever had in my life.

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At 00:03:28,249, Character said: I was on the expressway in Detroit,
and the radio was on.

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At 00:03:33,755, Character said: Soul singer Sam Cooke
shot to death last night...

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At 00:03:38,218, Character said: in Compton or wherever he was.

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At 00:03:42,472, Character said: I was devastated.

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At 00:03:44,724, Character said: I don't think I functioned for a week.

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At 00:03:47,727, Character said: It was horrible.

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At 00:03:50,605, Character said: I asked my father

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At 00:03:52,023, Character said: when he told me he was dead,
I said, "What, a car accident?

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At 00:03:55,735, Character said: A plane crash?"

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At 00:03:57,946, Character said: I couldn't... Even when he told me
he g***t shot, I...

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At 00:04:02,742, Character said: I could've just passed out.

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At 00:04:04,285, Character said: Who would want to shoot Sam Cooke?
That's what I asked myself.

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At 00:04:08,414, Character said: I was sad and confused back then,

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At 00:04:10,667, Character said: and most... other people, especially
in the black community, but not only,

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At 00:04:13,920, Character said: were sad and confused.
You know, "What happened?"

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At 00:04:25,723, Character said: Everybody was cold but anxiously waiting.

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At 00:04:29,769, Character said: They wanted to see Sam Cooke.

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At 00:04:31,813, Character said: They wanted to know
if this really happened.

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At 00:04:36,317, Character said: There was just disbelief
and sorrow all mixed up.

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At 00:04:40,947, Character said: Two hundred thousand people-plus
showed up at his funeral in Chicago,

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At 00:04:45,451, Character said: and this is how this man died,

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At 00:04:47,120, Character said: you know, n***d
at a seedy hotel in Los Angeles.

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At 00:04:52,333, Character said: He's one of the biggest pop stars
in America,

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At 00:04:55,128, Character said: and he's just mysteriously dead now.
Didn't make any sense.

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At 00:05:00,216, Character said: Muhammad Ali, in his grief and rage,
essentially said,

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At 00:05:04,220, Character said: "If this had happened to Frank Sinatra
or The Beatles or Ricky Nelson,

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At 00:05:09,392, Character said: the FBI would be investigating this."

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At 00:05:11,519, Character said: 'Cause, of course, it felt
this all went way too quickly.

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At 00:05:14,397, Character said: And Muhammad Ali, I think,
spoke for the entire community

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At 00:05:17,608, Character said: who believed that this was being treated
as just another dead black person.

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At 00:05:22,071, Character said: Sam Cooke, at the time of his death,

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At 00:05:24,198, Character said: is someone who has significant meaning
to the black community.

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At 00:05:28,911, Character said: Black community loves him.

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At 00:05:30,913, Character said: Sam Cooke didn't mean the same
to white America.

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At 00:05:34,125, Character said: They didn't recognize
how important Sam Cooke was.

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At 00:05:37,879, Character said: Sam Cooke's death, or at least the way
that it's been treated in the media,

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At 00:05:42,258, Character said: it's been allowed to sort of hijack
the rest of his career.

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At 00:05:46,054, Character said: People didn't think of Sam Cooke
in that way,

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At 00:05:48,264, Character said: but he's a racial hero
as much as he was a musical hero.

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At 00:05:52,477, Character said: Between the way he died
and this representation of him

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At 00:05:57,023, Character said: as a sort of almost
one-dimensional character

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At 00:05:59,400, Character said: kind of loses the essence of who he was.

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At 00:06:01,986, Character said: You have to question

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At 00:06:03,196, Character said: why did the record companies
suppress his politics?

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At 00:06:30,306, Character said: Yeah.

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At 00:06:37,313, Character said: - Miss Elinor Harris.
- Hello, Miss Harris.

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At 00:06:39,190, Character said: - Sam, sit here.
- Terrific.

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At 00:06:41,651, Character said: - It's good news.
- Good news, yeah.

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At 00:06:44,153, Character said: Let's do a little capsule version
of the Sam Cooke story.

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At 00:06:46,697, Character said: - How'd it all happen...
- The captions version. Uh...

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At 00:06:49,409, Character said: Born. My father was a minister.

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At 00:06:51,494, Character said: Uh, I started singing in the church,
naturally,

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At 00:06:54,080, Character said: because I'm exposed
to, uh, gospel singing first, Mike.

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At 00:07:12,432, Character said: Sam Cooke
is born in 1931 in Mississippi.

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At 00:07:16,477, Character said: As Sam Cooke was coming of age
during the Great Depression,

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At 00:07:18,855, Character said: late '30s into the '40s,

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At 00:07:20,606, Character said: slavery was something that was still
a residual memory for many people.

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At 00:07:28,030, Character said: You're talking about a time
where black people,

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At 00:07:31,117, Character said: especially black men,
were being lynched all over the place.

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At 00:07:33,995, Character said: I'm certain that people
like Sam Cooke's family,

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At 00:07:36,747, Character said: including his father, who was a preacher,
said, "We've g***t to get somewhere

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At 00:07:40,168, Character said: where we can have a life for ourselves,
where we can actually not just survive,

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At 00:07:43,254, Character said: but hopefully, we can win."

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At 00:07:50,928, Character said: My great-grandmother
was a slave in Mississippi.

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At 00:07:53,431, Character said: She had no education.
Neither did my father.

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At 00:07:56,100, Character said: He was a self-made man,

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At 00:07:58,436, Character said: but he saw the disadvantages
to the negro child in the South,

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At 00:08:01,898, Character said: so he went north to Chicago.

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At 00:08:04,442, Character said: In many ways, I'm very like my father.

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At 00:08:06,986, Character said: He has this intense drive that I've g***t.

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At 00:08:11,115, Character said: Papa Cook g***t a church in Chicago,

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At 00:08:14,285, Character said: so everybody went to church in his family.

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At 00:08:19,123, Character said: Bronzeville was a beautiful place.

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At 00:08:21,584, Character said: In that corridor,
from 43rd and State Street

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At 00:08:25,087, Character said: to 51st Street,

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At 00:08:27,840, Character said: there must've been 200 to 300
black businesses that were vibrant.

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At 00:08:32,803, Character said: Segregated, of course. All black.

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At 00:08:35,890, Character said: It was like a black Wall Street.

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At 00:08:41,020, Character said: Churches everywhere on every block.

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At 00:08:47,693, Character said: There is no black politics at this
moment in time without the black church.

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At 00:08:51,531, Character said: If you were a popular gospel singer,
as Sam Cooke eventually would become,

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At 00:08:55,493, Character said: you would rub elbows
with a young Martin Luther King, right?

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At 00:08:58,621, Character said: You would know
who Reverend C.L. Franklin was,

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At 00:09:01,082, Character said: who, of course,
is Aretha Franklin's father

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At 00:09:02,833, Character said: and generally regarded as
one of the...