Thanks & a question

Thanks very much, everyone, for a very enjoyable class last night. It was a real treat for me to see some of you again, and to meet so many new almost-grads. Enjoy Labor Day week-end, and travel safely if you are on the road, in the air or on the rails (the railroad kind).

On the way home, I was just thinking about a vocabulary choice I hadn't noticed before in the Learning Communities DVD. When the producer or director referred to the deaths of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy s/he used the word "killed" rather than the more precise "assassinated" or even "murdered." In a film that was stressing the historical and political context to educational reform, it seems odd to me that the creators would fudge the way in which two extraordinary men died, almost as if it might be too inflammatory to say that they were assassinated, that there was a wider context to their deaths. What do you think?