Barthelme, JFK, etc

[pynchonoid]

Whether Donald Barthelme raged against JFK remains
unknown, but, obviously, lots of people continue to
hate him and, apparently, will pay to approximate the
experience of assassinating him.

Reuters reports: 

[...] 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 that 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.

[...] Traffic Games said the objective was for a
player to fire three shots at Kennedy's motorcade from
assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's digitally re-created
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. [...]

<http://news.com.com/New+video+game+re-creates+Kennedy+assassination/2100-1043_3-5461790.html?tag=nefd.top>

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