Reply With Quoteperhaps they are thinking that if nobody can replicate the commission results, the commission results were invalid?
Some of you may or may not have seen this application called JFK Reloaded. From the website:
I'm still trying to figure out, exactly, what benefit this has. Intiailly, I assumed it was a 3D real-time recreation of the assassination based on testimony gathered, not only from the Warren Commission, but also from the plethora of independent investigations that have gone on in the last 40 years. Not so much for the purpose of proving anything, but to demonstrate all of the popular theories of alternate gunmen in various locations.You are about to take part in the world’s first interactive reconstruction of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
When I loaded the program up, however; I was startled to find it was a game. You actually take control of Lee Harvey Oswald in the School Book Depository. The demo only allows you to view and not fire your weapon from Oswald's vantage point, but the full version -- and this is something I found really unsettling -- offers a $100,000 prize to anyone who can most closely recreate the events of the assassination according to the Warren Commission Report.
My befuddlement doesn't come, necessarily, from the idea that someone is allowing people to sit in Oswald's shoes. The website clearly does not make it sound like a game, thankfully enough. But the utter lack of any other information about the assassination is what confuses me. The website/application make many basic assumptions, such as the Warren Commission's results being largely infallible that I fail to see what good this is. Perhaps I'm just not seeing it and someone else can explain it to me.
perhaps they are thinking that if nobody can replicate the commission results, the commission results were invalid?
I'm not really sure. I haven't played the full version, so I have no idea if the simulation takes into account the reload time for the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle used in the shooting. Oswald's marksmanship has always been an issue with critics of the Warren Commission report. Experts weren't able to reenact the events as they were described to have happened at the time of investigation. I'm not really sure a 3D mockup is going to tell anyone something that's already been widely questioned.
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