Tommy Robert Cooke On a warm Sunday evening in June 1956, Tommy Robert Cooke, a 23-year-old theological student and assistant pastor at a Tulsa Baptist church, stopped his car at the traffic light at Third and Cheyenne Streets in Tulsa. It was around 5:30 p.m., and the intersection was quiet. Cooke, described in court records as a young divinity student, had no reason to expect danger. Edward Leon Williams, a man in his late 20s or early 30s who had recently committed an arme