What About Di Re-enacted?

while surfing BlogExplosion today i came across this post at AT the HEART of IT, which mentions the new Web site that the British developed called JFK Reloaded and which inspired my own post.

for $10, you can download a first person shooter (FPS) video game in which you play Lee Harvey Oswald. the object is, obviously, to shoot John Kennedy. what’s worse is that there’s a competition in which contestants can win $100,000. the winner will be chosen based on who:

most closely match[es] the shots taken by Lee Harvey Oswald, as concluded in the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of JFK.

that would be like an American company developing a site called “Di Re-enacted” in which you use a mouse to drag the Mercedes and see how hard you can crash it in order to reconstruct the accident scene. the game would be something along the lines of Spank the Monkey.

report from NBC5.com below.

NBC5.com Video Game Features JFK Assassination

POSTED: 3:18 PM CST November 22, 2004 UPDATED: 3:20 PM CST November 22, 2004

A British company said Sunday it was releasing a video game re-creating the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy. A spokesman for the president’s brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., called the game “despicable.” The Glasgow-based firm Traffic said “JFK Reloaded” was an educational “docu-game” that would help disprove conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s death. The game is due to be released Monday, the 41st anniversary of the shooting in Dallas.

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Traffic said the game challenged players to re-create the three shots fired at the president’s car by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald from the Texas School Book Depository. Traffic’s managing director, Kirk Ewing, said the game - available as an Internet download for $9.99 - would “stimulate a younger generation of players to take an interest in this fascinating episode of American history.”

Game Recreates JFK’s Death
“We’ve created the game with the belief that Oswald was the only person that fired the shots on that day, although this re-creation proves how immensely difficult his task was,” Ewing said.

In a statement, Traffic said it was “determined to promote the title respectfully,” given the sensitivity of the subject. Sen. Kennedy’s spokesman, David Smith, would not comment on whether the family was taking any action to stop the game’s release. “It’s despicable. There’s really no further comment,” Smith said, adding that the senator’s Washington office started getting calls about the game Friday.

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