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On October 8th, 1963, even though on tour, Cooke and customers of his entourage have been arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana, for disturbing the peace after they made an effort to sign up at a white motel — an incident mirrored inside the song’s third verse. And Cooke’s mourning for his eighteen-month-aged son, Vincent, who drowned that June,