After all, Edward Kennedy and his kin are public figures, and as everybody knows, public figures are abstract-not real people with real feelings. That may strike you as a strange thing to wonder. You are drawing a bead on a real man through a rifle sight-not indiscriminately shooting nameless German soldiers.īut ultimately, what troubles me most is the simple question of what the president's family must think. There is an awful intimacy to it, too, the claustrophobic closeness of sniper and victim. Also, "JFK Reloaded" puts players in the uncomfortable role of "committing" one of history's most infamous crimes. No one alive saw the Civil War, and the number of those who have firsthand memory of Normandy or the Titanic is small and dwindling. The Kennedy assassination is closer to us because it is still well within living memory. They have, for instance, put us in the middle of the Civil War, aboard the Titanic and at the Normandy invasion. After all, video games have recreated other painful historical memories. It's a fairer question than it seems on first blush. Of course, you might wonder why anyone is offended. "JFK" is reprehensible, abominable, detestable, adjectives I would also apply to Traffic, the company in Glasgow, Scotland, that is releasing it. Truth is, you could burn out your thesaurus on this thing and never scratch the surface. Which is a statement of admirable restraint. Points are deducted for mistakes, like shooting the first lady.Ī spokesman for the president's brother, Edward Kennedy, called the game despicable. The Web site promises prizes of up to $100,000 for those who match Oswald. You are awarded points for accurately recreating the shots that, according to the official account, were fired at Kennedy that day.
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