Shoot to Will

JFK: Reloaded lets us recreate one of America’s greatest tragedies. It’s not as bad as you think.

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A pink line drawing tracing a bullet’s winding path past a rifle, a gurney, a hand and a necktie.
Illustration by Colin Pinegar

It is November 22, 1963. I sit on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, gazing downward at Dealey Plaza. As John F. Kennedy’s motorcade approaches, I aim my rifle at the president. My first shot misses. My second hits Kennedy in the chest, ricocheting into Governor John Connally in the front seat. The third strikes Kennedy’s head. Fatality.

This is JFK: Reloaded, a 2004 videogame reenactment of Kennedy’s assassination in which you play Lee Harvey Oswald. Shoot the president as Oswald did—win the game.