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Video Game Simulates (?) JFK Assassination; Awards/Deducts Points for Following/Diverging from Warren Commission Report
From Reuters:
A new video game to be released Monday allows players to simulate[?] the assassination of President Kennedy.
The release of "JFK Reloaded" [cute title, eh?] 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," [oh please stop!] 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 [as opposed to a scientifically-sound?] version of events as documented in by the Warren Commission, which investigated Kennedy's assassination.
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want everyone to know
I want every democrat that reads this to know, JFK and RFK were absolutely killed by conspiracies. I have looked extensively over the last few years, and if you study the actual evidence of both cases, their is no way it matches in either case, especially JFK. The Warren Commision was pure fiction. Arlen's Specter's Magic Bullet was impossibe, and a great lie was perpetuated and helped to be covered up by a democrat. I believe the decendants and in some cases maybe even the same people, still inhabit the exreme right, so now they basically run the country. So don't believe this crap of a game, because the evidence is everywhere, make your own opinion and unless you are one of the robot Repugs you gotta believe it. America was robbed of the Progressive vision and leadership for a generation, and it took Democrats until Clinton to recover. I wish all democrats would strive to bring the Kennedy vision of stregnth with compassion, and respect for the earth with sanity, and being strong AND Responsible, and most of all sensible in world affairs. If you wanna go to some sights and read some RFK speeches from 68, when the country was so divided, they really have relevance again, and make you so sad for our countries loss of these great men. We owe to them to at least tell our children the truth abouth their deaths. I am no nut and I challenge any who hasn't to look at the evidence, then disagree.
Game despicable - motive more interesting
I find it really interesting that you get points by how closely you match the Warren Report. This sounds like a CIA creation, buried offshore to 'blowback' here to the states. The CIA is definitely involved in the assassination of both JFK and RFK - I wrote about both cases at length in the book The Assassinations (www.theassassinations.com). This sounds like a classic psy-op designed to encourage and reinforce behavior supportive of the Warren Commission. Outrageous, not to include absolutely heinous and hurtful to the Kennedy family. And I'm pissed off at media coverage. It's so obviously beneath comment that one has to question the CIA-controlled media's objectives in covering this. (If you doubt the CIA controls the media - read the chapter on that topic in the book listed above.)
JFK Game
I heard folks on a local radio station discussing the new JFK game and it was interesting (yet disturbing)to say the least. The host was having callers give their own ideas for future game releases. I've provided a few below.
1. The Sims Slaves
2. Scott Peterson - Gone Fishin'
3. NBA 2006 (Players can go into the stands and beat up fans.)
4. Hitler (Object is to gas Jews)
5. 9/11 Simulator (Object is to fly jets into buildings)
6. Kobe Bryant Date Rape
7. Leisure Suit Larry (Out of the closet)
These are just a few, but this just shows what type of people are out there and how sick they can be.
It's dispicable.
It's dispicable.
despicable
i agree. this sort of thing should never have been released.
the KYdemocrat
http://kydem.blogspot.com
Petition against JFK Assassination Game.
To: "Traffic" regarding their "JFK Reloaded" program.
We the undersigned wish to express our outrage and protest to "Traffic" and the world at large regarding their "JFK Reloaded" program. A computer program simulating the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy as gamers play the role of Lee Harvey Oswald is in the poorest of tastes, and will be hurtful to the Kennedy family.
We request any and all interested parties sign and pass on the url of this petition to their acquaintances to facilitate our protest.
Sincerely,
http://www.petitiononline.com/jfk/petition.html
Please help protest the JFK Assassination "Game"
Does anyone have suggestions as to how we can further this protest and petition?
http://www.petitiononline.com/jfk/petition.html