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.
No, there is a vast difference between a sharpshooter, trained to hit fixed targets from a set difference, and a sniper, trained to hit fixed or moving targets from much greater distances, with the responsibility for finding an adequate shooting point and concealing himself from view.
difference = distance
You can choose to believe in the magic bullet.
You stated he was a Marine sniper. He wasn't.
I have had training in homicide investigations and techniques, but I am not a homicide detective. I have had covert surveillance training and techniques, but I do not work for the CIA. I have taken multiple defensive driving courses, but I am not a test driver. I had some training regarding emergency medical techniques, but by no means am I a paramedic or a doctor.
Just because someone has had some type of basic training, does not somehow magically make them a professional at whatever they had training in.
An accurate statement would have been, Oswald had basic training in the Marines, that included some basic sniper training instruction, however he was not a Marine sniper. He was a Marine radar operator.
You knew what BSF meant.
I trust you read the entire thread.
Yes, I did read the entire thread, and the statement that Oswald was a sniper is simply incorrect.
That was Dale Myers on the program originally aired on ABC last year for the 40th anniversary.
Dale won an Emmy for that. Parts of the same simulation were also used on the Discovery Channel program last week.
It's subjective. For all the talk that he was a crappy marksman, he hit his target with a single bullet and the target obviously wasn't stationary.
You stated he was a Marine sniper. He was not.
Then along comes a mission pack where as Fat Teddy,you get to search for John Jr on a US battleship and fish him out of the sea,cremate him,and then throw him back.
Waiting....
Uhhhh, no. Watch it again.
The odds that JFK was killed by a lone gunman are about the same as the odds that Vince Foster died at his own hands in Fort Marcy Park.
A list of dignitaries attending Reagan's funeral The Associated Press Last Updated 3:04 pm PDT Wednesday, June 9, 2004 (AP) - Foreign dignitaries expected to attend former President Reagan's funeral on Friday: Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder British Prime Minister Tony Blair Britain's Prince Charles Irish President Mary McAleese South African President Thabo Mbeki Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo Romanian President Ion Iliescu Acting Lithuanian President Arturas Paulauskas Former Finnish President Mauno Koivisto Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney Australian Governor General Maj. Gen. Michael Jeffrey Former Polish President Lech Walesa Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone Slovakian President Rudolf Schuster Grenadan Governor General Sir Daniel Williams Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Former Danish Prime Minister Poul Schlueter Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Lars Engqvist Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Portuguese Parliament President Joao Mota Amaral Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue Mexican first lady Marta Sahagun Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez
LOL....Yeah, I saw that list...I thought maybe you had run across a list of those thousands who attended and signed the guestbook at the door.
Uh, later Fred......
Uhhh, yes. I've watched that film many, many times before you even born, son. Don't waste your time trying to tell me what I've seen.
Don't feel bad you fell short of your mark yet again. Practice makes perfect.
LBJ
People always seem to forget how close Jim Garrison was to getting a conviction for conspiracy against Clay Shaw for conspiracy to kill Kennedy.
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