The Challenge

Why are political leaders assassinated?
Write a claim, assertion, and/or thesis and use supporting evidence from the background reading.

The Ambassador

R.F.K. is the school today
Where Bobby Kennedy was blown away
Why? Why? Why!
Did political assassination prevail,
leaving behind a bloody trail.
No one discusses conspiracy theory;
Sirhan Sirhan's mental disability-
another Arab hate crime on Jew,
but this is not so simple as black and blue.
Now stands U.S.C. New Media Literacy~
Students who question their place in history.
The Ambassador was the setting,
now LAUSD has a the netting:
Teachers silenced revolutionaries
who speak out, pointed pistols
still trying to defeat the confederacy.

The Background Reading

The Murder of Fred Hampton
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy