JFK killing video game raises outcry
Simulated assassination
By Nick Farrell: Monday 22 November 2004, 06:59
A VIDEO game released yesterday allows players to simulate the assassination of John F Kennedy.
JFK Reloaded hits the shops to coincide with the 41st anniversary of Kennedy's murder in Dallas, which is such a memorable anniversary that we are surprised that people didn't remember.
Anyway the plot is not that there was a great conspiracy to kill the president but aims to prove that a lone gunman was able to kill the president with an incredible bouncing bullet.
It has been released by Scottish games outfit Traffic Games which said it used new technology to simulate the killing.
The objective is to fire three shots at Kennedy's motorcade from 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.
If you hit Kennedy in the right spots in the right sequence you get a high score. Getting Jacqueline Kennedy, or any other gunmen on the grassy knoll leads 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.
You can see 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.
Not surprisingly the game has miffed the Kennedy family. A spokesman for Sen. Edward Kennedy, the late president's brother dubbed the game as despicable.
Simulated assassination
By Nick Farrell: Monday 22 November 2004, 06:59
A VIDEO game released yesterday allows players to simulate the assassination of John F Kennedy.
JFK Reloaded hits the shops to coincide with the 41st anniversary of Kennedy's murder in Dallas, which is such a memorable anniversary that we are surprised that people didn't remember.
Anyway the plot is not that there was a great conspiracy to kill the president but aims to prove that a lone gunman was able to kill the president with an incredible bouncing bullet.
It has been released by Scottish games outfit Traffic Games which said it used new technology to simulate the killing.
The objective is to fire three shots at Kennedy's motorcade from 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.
If you hit Kennedy in the right spots in the right sequence you get a high score. Getting Jacqueline Kennedy, or any other gunmen on the grassy knoll leads 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.
You can see 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.
Not surprisingly the game has miffed the Kennedy family. A spokesman for Sen. Edward Kennedy, the late president's brother dubbed the game as despicable.
