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.
I believe that he was shot twice. Three shots were attempted.
Thanks Meek.
Not really, you just failed, that's all...water under the bridge
Knock Yourself Out - Plenty of stuff and links here ... Over here as well
right. The zapruder film clearly shows that shot was a frontal shot.
Thanks. I appreciate the warning, even if not wanting to see it makes me "weak". LOL
:)
How about the JFK Jr. Flight Simulator?
According to the Warren Report, "Oswald was trained in the use of the M-1 rifle. His practice scores were not very good, but when his company fired for record on December 21, he scored 212, 2 points above the score necessary to qualify as a "sharpshooter" on a marksman/sharpshooter/expert scale."
Also:
Oswald, born October 18, 1939, in New Orleans, Louisiana, served in the Marine Corps from 1956 until 1960.
You bet. :^)
Oswald was trained as a radar operator and assigned to Japan
Oswald was court martialed twice, for shooting himself accidentally with a .22 derringer
Assuming you know every name of every official that served under Arafat, right down to US Representative based in Washington, so I assume you don't know much there.
Nonetheless, he was a Marine Corpsman from 1956 until 1960.
It's pretty graphic. Not for everyone to see. :^)
Oswald's marksmanship has never been questioned
by those of us who are KNOWLEDGEABLE.
Fair enough!
Exactly. Course my grandfather couldn't shoot the side of a barn, yet my grandmother could take down a pheasant in flight from a hundred yards away. My grandmother still boasts about that day many years ago. My grandfather tried to shoot a pheasant in the bushes and missed, the pheasant took flight, and my grandmother grabbed the gun, squeezed the other shot off and down it went.
Check out this PDF file - Dallas Conspiracy by Nord Davis.
I remember this from when I was a kid. This guy raises issues that I've never seen on any of the conspiracy shows. Like the woman who was re-touched out of the film after the Warren report. You can look at the Zapruder films in Life magazine before and after, and they DID miss her scarf!
This guy found this in the 60's and I've never seen it mentioned anywhere else.
He was a marksman, not a sniper. Huge difference.
LOL!
I can recall that day vividly.
It wasn't until the conspiracy theorists starting writing
books, that Oswald's sharpshooter status was questioned.
He was an ace shot, and that rifle was a mail order, and
not all that accurate. Nonetheless, Oswald acted alone,
and he hit his target.
You KNEW what BSF meant.
That's because there was no conspiracy and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
The reverse trajectory of both wounds of Connolly and Kennedy point exactly to the window Oswald was in. The shot was quite makable for a practiced marksman, no matter what Oliver Stone says.
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