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New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination
Reuters ^ | Sun Nov 21, 2004 | Ben Berkowitz

Posted on 11/21/2004 10:58:27 AM PST by yonif

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A new video game to be released on Monday allows players to simulate the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

The release of "JFK Reloaded" is timed to coincide with the 41st anniversary of Kennedy's murder in Dallas and was designed to demonstrate a lone gunman was able to kill the president.

"It is despicable," said David Smith, a spokesman for Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the late president's brother. He was informed of the game on Friday but declined further comment.

Kirk Ewing, managing director of the Scottish firm Traffic Games, which developed the game, said he understood some people would be horrified at the concept, but he insisted he and his team had nothing but respect for Kennedy and for history.

"We believe that the only thing we're exploiting is new technology," said Ewing, a former documentary filmmaker and senior executive with Scottish developer VIS, responsible for games like "State of Emergency." He said he sent Edward Kennedy a letter before the game's release.

Ewing said the game was designed to undermine the theory there was some shadowy plot behind the assassination. "We believe passionately there was no conspiracy," he said.

Traffic Games said the objective was for a player to fire three shots at Kennedy's motorcade from assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's digitally recreated sixth-floor perch in the Texas School Book Depository.

Points are awarded or subtracted based on how accurately the shots match the official version of events as documented in by the Warren Commission, which investigated Kennedy's assassination.

Shooting the image of Kennedy in the right spots in the right sequence adds to the score, while "errors" like shooting first lady Jacqueline Kennedy lead to deductions.

Each shot can be replayed in slow motion, and the bullets can be tracked as they travel and pass through Kennedy's digitally recreated body. Players can choose to see blood by pressing a "blood effects" option.

Players can view the motorcade from a number of angles, including the perspective of filmmaker Abraham Zapruder and a view from the "grassy knoll" where some conspiracy theorists believe a second gunman was stationed.

The game will be available via download for $9.99.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jfkassassination; kennedy; videogames
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1 posted on 11/21/2004 10:58:28 AM PST by yonif
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I'm looking for the video game that re-creates Chappaquiddick.


2 posted on 11/21/2004 10:59:59 AM PST by martin_fierro (cOhErEnT pOsTs aRe oVeRrAtEd)
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To: yonif

This is disgraceful. It lends credibility to assassinating presidents.


3 posted on 11/21/2004 11:00:43 AM PST by NittanyLion
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To: yonif

I love the internet.


4 posted on 11/21/2004 11:01:10 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: yonif

They had a documentary on the History Channel last night. This guy who studied the Secruter (SP?) film has made a computer similation of the assasination. According to him, he firmly believes that there was no conspiracy and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.


5 posted on 11/21/2004 11:02:01 AM PST by Nascardude
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To: yonif

This nation is losing its dignity.

I think that is what voters lament.


6 posted on 11/21/2004 11:02:20 AM PST by Finalapproach29er (You can drive from coast to coast and never pass through a single county won by Kerry.)
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To: Nascardude

Back and to the left...back and to the left...


7 posted on 11/21/2004 11:03:09 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: yonif

How many Magic Bullets do you get?


8 posted on 11/21/2004 11:03:47 AM PST by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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To: yonif

Not exactly what I would call "challenging" gameplay, unless you get to go to a bar and then driving with Ted in the next level.


9 posted on 11/21/2004 11:04:20 AM PST by Rome2000 (Democrats are perverted socialist crooks)
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.... but he insisted he and his team had nothing but respect for Kennedy and for history.

And for the almighty dollar.

10 posted on 11/21/2004 11:04:56 AM PST by kattracks
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To: Nascardude
According to him, he firmly believes that there was no conspiracy and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Yeah, but that would mean that some Communist nut job killed JFK and not right-wing conservatives. We can't have that! :-)
12 posted on 11/21/2004 11:06:26 AM PST by Freepdonia (Victory is Ours! (I told you so :-))
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Disgusting...I fully understand Sen. Kennedy's feelings on this...I don't like him but I'd be pissed as hell if someone made a game recreating the killing of my brother aswell.


13 posted on 11/21/2004 11:06:44 AM PST by Blue Scourge (The media needs to remember which country provides them with freedom of the press...)
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To: Nascardude

Zapruder, I think?


14 posted on 11/21/2004 11:06:50 AM PST by fastattacksailor (This tagline brought to you by Izzy Dunne's tagline virus!)
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To: yonif

The assassination of a president strikes at the very core of the legitimacy of our government, the extension of our revered self-determination.

To make light of that, is in essense disrespecting the very core of what we are as a nation.

This truly disgusts me. May this exercise in free enterprise bring financial ruin to the idiots involved.


15 posted on 11/21/2004 11:07:16 AM PST by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
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To: martin_fierro
I'm looking for the video game that re-creates Chappaquiddick.

That was the first thought that popped into my head!

16 posted on 11/21/2004 11:07:18 AM PST by SpyGuy (Liberalism is slow societal suicide.)
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To: Nascardude

Zapruder film. I think I've seen the documentary you're talking about and it was pretty good.

By the way, this video game sounds despicable.


17 posted on 11/21/2004 11:07:20 AM PST by saquin
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18 posted on 11/21/2004 11:08:40 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Every friggin November we go through this JFK drama. He's dead. Lets move on.


19 posted on 11/21/2004 11:09:40 AM PST by sarasotarepublican (Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.)
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To: Nascardude

I think Oswald had help. How come Kennedy was shot three times which came from different angles? I know Oswald lived in Soviet Union. Also, the assassination happened one year after the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is possible that the Communists were angry about it and they wanted revenge. I heard Fidel Castro was involved.


20 posted on 11/21/2004 11:09:45 AM PST by Ptarmigan (Proud rabbit hater and killer)
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