Gang, we’ve gotta stop killing JFK

Many video games explore alternate history. But when they start getting into the Kennedy assassination, you know it's gonna get weird. There are a few different games that have toyed with this particular moment in history and, strangely enough, the one that recreates it exactly is also the one that's fueled the most conspiracy theories about who really killed JFK.
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[@TheClosetExtrovert]

Alternate histories in games are always about presidential assassinations and never about stuff like "what if the US succeeded in their plan to domesticate hippos"

[@polygon]

So true

[@nickc3657]

I need a whole alt world with this scenario, à la SCP foundation.

[@tuberculosisterrence567]

It happens in the Hoi4 mod red flood, but there is other stuff mixed in there

[@DeconvertedMan]

There is a board game devolped about it, after hippos are domesticated someone buys four of them, and finds out they are just way to hungry hungry!

[@createdforthemoment6740]

@@DeconvertedMan and that game Is 'Risk'

[@RTGame]

Don't you just hate it when you're going about your day and oops! You've assassinated JFK again

[@AsteroidWrangler]

Just a typical Friday, am I right?

[@helloeverybodization]

Not really, no. It's just a Tuesday, after all.

[@robertpaulson5095]

RTGame, relatable as always!

[@Bobberation]

gah happens to me all the time, so frustrating

[@ShakeyBox]

Wait, is there a Hitman level where you can kill JFK with a muffin? 🧁👀

[@TheSpyder49]

My favorite JFK theory is easily the Oops, My Bad theory. Oswald missed his shots, startled one of the security behind Kennedy who was incredibly hungover, and the agent misfired when drawing his weapon, executing the president. No grand theory, no real second shooter- of course there was a coverup. This would be the most embarrassing fuckup of all modern american politics

[@curtaintreatment3588]

I miss theories like this. Theories now are online for an audience of conspiracy fans, so its always covering up aliens or mole men or vampires of the opposing political party, instead of the more sensible reason for a coverup, just something embarassing.

[@egancurry]

I’m officially adopting this theory

[@edwardnygma8533]

Ever since I heard this theory, along with the fact that the CIA(FBI?) somehow "lost" his brain before an official autopsy, I've happily accepted this as the secret, albeit underwhelming, truth to the matter. Magic bullets and a grassy knoll shooter have nothing on a good ol'e fashioned overworked, hungover employee.

[@astrid1290]

the runner up is “what if his head just DID that?”

[@aldabraika1836]

Embarrassing yes. Most embarrassing fuckup of all modern American politics? weeeell there's a lot to compete with there.

[@samyocom-piatt818]

*TOTK Spoilers* Sorry but killing JFK is the best side mission

[@nixel1324]

*JFKR Spoilers* Killing JFK is the best (and only) main mission

[@haughtygarbage5848]

Ouch well I couldn't afford the $70 plus $30 jfk dlc right away so I guess I deserve to be spoiled 😢

[@Bobberation]

Yeah but you get a choice of doing it the intended way, by shooting him, or of building a *really long bridge* and dropping it on his head

[@billblaski9523]

What's totk?

[@Cuttlefisher]

Playing Metal Gear Solid when I was 10 made me absolutely convinced I was an expert on geopolitics for a time because it had documentary footage in it. Imagine how silly it would be if adults did that as well in the present year! Haha! Ha!

[@iamjustkiwi]

Haha that would be a hilarious joke that no one would take seriously right? Right?!

[@arturmoreto8941]

Me, a PhD on Cold War after finishing MGS3

[@Kenpokid4]

To be fair, MGS is closer to reality than a Call of Duty game LMAO

[@clays4038]

@@Kenpokid4 closer to real events sure. But closer to reality? The game series that had a telekinetic boss that could delete your save file with their mind?

[@Kenpokid4]

@@clays4038 More believable than America being the good guys-

[@FinnA9X]

The only example I could think of that related to this is that Arkane's Prey takes place in an alternative history timeline but the divergence point from the real world is that JFK survived the assassination attempt.

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

in the anime Baki there is a scene in which George Bush recreates the Kennedy Assassination in the same location without being assassinated in order to show off his new security detail and how much better they are than Kennedy's, at which point Baki Hanma, a 17-year-old Japanese boy, runs up to his car, picks him up, and runs away with him so that he can get arrested and fight Che Guevara in prison.

[@tefkah]

... I should watch Baki

[@MaticTheProto]

And all that without really being seen by security

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

@@tefkah At one point in the first season a dude gets punched so hard he ages 80 years and then miraculously recovers by thinking about swimming for several months. Its absolute bullshit, you should watch it.

[@robertstarnes6878]

When you said "even a resurrected Oswald probably couldn't recreate that shot in JFK Reloaded, because he's not a Kennedy assassinating robot", it made me wonder. Why has nobody created an Aimbot for JFK Reloaded to prove that the Warren Commission's version of events (or a modern version with a modern understanding of ballistics) was at least technically possible, given the barest simulation of real world physics?

[@Ghiaman1334]

Probably because it's a very small, short, old game that touches on a subject barely anyone who would describe themselves as a gamer would have experienced. But even so, would it be moral to suggest it could be done, but only via AI assistance? To many, I'm sure that would just fan the flames more.

[@jaspermooren5883]

​@@Ghiaman1334Well perfect recreation is almost never possible. I do archery and if I take a very long shot on a target and then try to shoot in the exact same spot again, I could try for hours and never succeed. That is because the statistical likelihood of ANY unlikely event to happen is very like, you just don't know which one. But if you suddenly make a very specific very unlikely event the goal, it becomes increadibly unlikely that you can recreate it. So no, it would make a lot of sense. If it was near impossible to kill Kennedy from even close to that spot in a somewhat similar way, than it would have been something to stir the flames over. But just killing Kennedy somewhere on the road is not that hard in the game.

[@kinyutaka]

@@jaspermooren5883 This is the real answer. JFK Reloaded is never going to have a perfectly scored round because perfectly matching a shot is next to impossible. If you put Oswald back in that Depository and had him shoot again, the shots wouldn't be the same. But that doesn't mean he didn't do it.

[@edwardnygma8533]

You see, they actually HAVE put an aim aimbot in the game, but it DIDN'T find a way to recreate the shots at ALL, so the CIA had the creator of the mod arrested on bogus charges. Now they've been keeping an eye on it and hoping it'll still convince people LHO did it with the arguments Simon presented. They think they have all the leaks plugged, but I've been talking with a guy on the inside, and soon we'll have enough proof tooyditdpud85rydutd8tdbkoplll

[@TehGate28]

The version of JFK Reloaded that we have is not an 'intended for release' version. The dev put it out as a progress report of development and abandoned the project soon after. The version we have has some kind of bug that prevents the score screen from displaying a perfect score, even if a perfect score was achieved, and I believe he confirmed this.

[@Ancusohm]

Wait, people are claiming the Chevalier de Saint-georges isn't real? No! It's well documented. He was a real person. He hung out with Alexander Dumas (the general, not the author of the Three Musketeers).

[@polygon]

I think probably they just don’t know, and are spouting off based on assumptions

[@claytonandres1194]

Sounds like these people are a bunch of Dumas(ses)

[@gorimbaud]

and by the general you mean the father of the author of the three musketeers, yeah?

[@ZombieBatmanJesus]

Doesn't that mean that movie is not alternate history? That bit in the video confused me

[@sourwitch2340]

​@@ZombieBatmanJesusthe moment Doctor Anderson brings up how retelling history in media can give voice to the voiceless we are no longer talking about alternative history. We are talking about depicting history. The issue is just that, as we've seen with the Assassinate Kennedy simulator, any recreation of history will be freely interpreted and take creative licence. So taking away an alternate history from an intendedly accurate depiction is just as possible as one actively deceiving you.

[@than217]

I used to love playing JFK Reloaded in 2004/2005. One time with a single shot to the driver's foot on the pedal I managed to get the entire car to flip upside down after it drove up an embankment. Like can you IMAGINE if that's how it actually happened in real life?!?!?!

[@TCM464]

It would end up being the silliest tragedy of all time.

[@darthbob88]

15:30 I am shocked, shocked I say, to discover that a lady named Simone de Rochefort cited a lot of French people in her video essay.

[@claycook9475]

Really disappointed this wasn't a PSA for time-travelers.

[@johnpotts8308]

Do we know it isn't?

[@kinyutaka]

I played JFK Reloaded, and got close enough to the shots that I concluded that a better trained shooter with a real gun could have done it.

[@Feasco]

fr if you resurrected lee Harvey Oswald and made him play it with a keyboard and mouse even he'd be wondering how he pulled it off

[@kinyutaka]

@@Feasco Something you have to remember about the Kennedy Shooting. Oswald wasn't trying to recreate the shots found in the Warren Commission, and he wasn't interested in the point totals. It was a simple Pass/Fail for him. Either he killed Kennedy or he didn't. In that game, if you brain Kennedy in one shot, you get a low score. In reality, it would have been an A+ rating.

[@than217]

@@Feasco More than anything the placement, pacing, and timing of the shots was what the game was demonstrating could really be done. The movie JFK by contrast said there was no way it could be done so quickly by one shooter from those angles especially with the 'Magic Bullet'. But Mythbusters similarly proved the same as the game JFK Reloaded years later that Oswald could have done all of the shots in that time from the angles of the different impacts.

[@mesoseven1633]

@@kinyutaka that, and maybe he had 5 bullets, or 10, recreating events is always hard no matter how mundane. It's not that killing kennedy was hard, it's that killing kennedy the same way twice exactly is hard.

[@chryst4l926]

@@kinyutaka Thats not the point of the game though. Its not trying to prove killing JFK wouldve been impossible, its trying to show/not show that the shots taken, with the angles, timing, impact etc. could have been taken by a single person in the same circumstances. Its less about being able to accomplish the task, more so if the shots are physically possible or not.

[@TheLeggedOne]

Loved the JFK level in Super Mario Sunshine

[@viper505th]

Now do a video on every topic KZbin feels the suspicious need to give *context* to

[@warrenrandall6936]

JFK Reloaded was interesting: I had played a few First person shoot 'em up games at the time and found it was relatively easy to take out JFK as his car moved along the part of the road where he was assassinated. It's easier to hit a target that moves along the line of sight rather than perpendicular, and obviously when it's close enough to see the target. Oswald, as a qualified shooter, would know this even before entering the book depository. It's called experience. If anything it reinforces the story about Oswald just because the Physics adds up.

[@LukeGartland]

Head was so big and Irish, they called him the Snipers' Dream..

[@pilby457]

Simone still finding uses for Brian's old wasted paper. props

[@Sudsyjellyfish]

My “somebody mentioned d’Eon” alarm went off and immediately launched me back to the blissful 7 weeks I spent researching how cool they way they did gender was 😍

[@Somethingbloody]

I remember when I played Black Ops, at the same time I was reading John Pilger's Heroes, a retrospective of a career of journalism focusing on class, and it's chapters about Vietnam and Cambodia. There's a bit where he talks about interviewing some stoned GI's who were in trouble for "fragging" an officer's tent (COD will fail you for that kind of friendly fire). I remember playing the level set in Khe Sanh, which was wave defense against hundred of enemies and a bunch of tanks, making you the defensive, outnumbered underdog, and a later level set in Cambodia with you stealing an attack chopper and blowing up a bunch of villages. No mention on the years of bombs the US dropped on Cambodia. Black Ops is so over the top and silly, but I do remember thinking that for some young people, this might be one of their only reference points to the Cold War and that part of history. There's a Kowloon Walled City level, and the KWC doesn't exist anymore. I also remember doing reading on Chevaliette D'eon, and how her true history was way more fascinating than the joke Unity made her out to be. And she was a rare case of a trans person whose story survived in some form to this day. And I wouldn't have even known about her if I hadn't wanted to know more about this side quest character, who is just a cheap gag of a female character model with a male VA. Great video, and super interesting to learn about synthetic memory. Also Jacob Geller's "Cultural Legacy of the Headshot" is another great vid that includes JFK Reloaded.

[@rachelwahlig8756]

Real "you can have your phone back when you stop shootin' the president" vibes in the final seconds of this video.

[@elmer4090]

JFK is dead?

[@BrunoHenrique-gi1wd]

moment of silence pls 🙏

[@iamjustkiwi]

Right? Spoiler culture these days SMH

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

That's what THEY want you to believe! He's actually frolicking in the crystal forest with Bambi's mother and Abraham Lincoln.

[@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 he’s living with Elvis, Tupac, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe on a UFO

[@Feasco]

you're right about living with Elvis but he was actually kidnapped, surgically disguised as a black man and placed in a nursing home where he eventually died during some bizarre incident involving a mummy

[@sydneygorelick7484]

15:40 "this real person isn't historically accurate because they're a European and they aren't a white cishet male" as if people never travelled at all until modern day and as if history isn't incredibly diverse. Since Roman times, people have been traveling all over, from Africa to Europe and back again.

[@redwitch95]

Yep, the Roman Empire spanned from west Asia to northern England. Soldiers regularly went on tours across the Empire, and took their families with them (even though they weren't meant to be married in the first place!). Why on earth *wouldn't* they also have children with locals and settle down there?

[@noeperard8843]

I love how in Prey (2017) the plot contains the assassination failing while it's not really necessary for the story to exist and work. It's justa way for them to say : "this is alternate history".

[@TheGMsLair]

I'm studying history and one part I'd like to add as to why conspiracy theories regarding the deaths of famous/powerful people (not only JFK or politicians) are so incredibly popular, is that it's really, REALLY hard for people to imagine how something relatively small or mundane can kill such a famous and (perceived) all-powerful person. Sure, a gunshot by itself is neither small or mundane in everyday life, but the thought that someone could've killed the "most powerful man in the world" just by pulling a trigger is, in a way, so bizarre. The fact, that people, who are widely regarded as "larger than life", can be killed by something, that is very much part of "life" just seems "nonsensical". This is good to remember, when watching true crime about famous people's deaths too btw. Yes, a cover-up is possible, but also it's possible that the person just fucked up and had an accident, or that someone just killed them.

[@Ninjat126]

I think the (perceived) power of the US military makes this dynamic even worse. Like, how could one guy with a gun "defeat" the entire US by shooting their president?

[@Greytuneify]

What a really interesting video essay. I am not American and don't know a lot of American presidents in general. I found this video really engaging and an interesting topic to explore.

[@justhere4637]

Me too.

[@ExtremalMetal]

"the CIA didn't kill Kennedy!" the CIA: "whew!"

[@adanufgail]

Simone making sure that the earmarked paper budget doesn't go to waste since BDG left!

[@lime9989]

this goes under “polygon videos to show my dad”

[@serdirtbagoftheleft4045]

Why? Allen Dulles 100% killed JFK

[@TheTownHeifer]

Don’t call me out like that lmao

[@arkane1732]

What if the gun just did that?

[@sobaka8685]

No!! It’s totally was a bullet, despite what THeY say.

[@Feasco]

few people talk about how a bolt action rifle flew through the air and bonked JFK on the noggin that day

[@kittyeyes5513]

Hahaha! Nothing bad ever happened to the Kennedy's!

[@warrenrandall6936]

Just to people travelling with them to Chappaquiddick.

[@aleam.7664]

My favorite conspiracy theory related to Kennedy is that there was a second shooter, but saw Oswald just eviscerate the president and just went "whelp" and left never shooting a single bullet.

[@jakefromstatefarm6969]

Best one is that Oswald acted alone but before he shot jfk, his head just did that, so Oswald just left

[@odd-eyes6363]

I think media that makes you think and doubt offical historical narratives are extremely important, especially regarding recent events. To this day there are still extremely high profile cases that have completely bogus official explanations. There was a specific case of witness elimination in my country, the Pesseghini case, in which the entire family of a policeman was murdered and the police pinned their 6 year old child as the perpetrator who conveniently commited suicide right after the deed. All perfectly fired shots to the head and dozens of witness reports completely ignored by the police because they contradict their official story. At the time they went as far as saying the kid had motive because he played Assassin's Creed, since it is a game where you take lives.

[@ImmortalDuke]

Wayne Gretzky: 'You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take."

[@charliecrossing]

This is such an incredibly insightful and fascinating video. Simone's ability to simultaneously crank up the entertainment factor alongside meaningful analysis is unparalleled, and I'm glad you let her talk about JFK's big melon head.

[@buckysrevenge]

The true takeaway from all this: NOTHING could EVER replace Tim Curry anyway

[@nathancarter8239]

Blue from Overly Sarcastic Productions had a talk with LudoHistory called "Historians Playing Historical Games: Why Do We Hurt Ourselves?" which takes a different, complementary stance that I think many people here would enjoy. And as a fan of history who's just about aware of how much I don't know, this topic pleases me greatly.

[@beretperson]

"Sorry that I included so many French people in this script." No, you're not.

[@OmegaTurtle]

I love when my silly little video game channel makes a video about how video games (and media more generally) tells stories and what stories they choose to tell, and how they affect our world view and in some cases make people believe in conspiracy theories.

[@clausewitzianwar]

0:12 I like how sound effects happen to imply the many many games will pop up, but the screen remains blank

[@jamessteward_]

Yeah lots of bit of this video feel unfinished

[@HeeCawRoo]

i legit had no idea that seinfeld bit at 3:35 was about the JFK assassination i watched that when i was a kid. that is a fucking wild thing to discover today

[@decodyg484]

It was about the movie she showed just before, it was a big deal at the time

[@urgamecshk]

No, it's about the movie about it. KZbin has a comp explaining all their references

[@HeeCawRoo]

that is really not a significant distinction.

[@decodyg484]

@@HeeCawRoo it literally quoted the movie, it's a parody of a scene. Without seeing the movie scene, there isn't any context relating it to the assassination. If the distinction didn't matter you would've understood what Seinfeld was doing

[@HeeCawRoo]

@@decodyg484 no, i wouldnt have, because i was 8. "its about the JFK assassination" vs "its about a movie about the JFK assassination" is really not that huge a difference. this is a weird thing to commit to.

[@TheGreatAwesome]

The vast majority of people who played JFK Reloaded probably realized how silly the conspiracy theories were if they gave them any credence before. The game made it clear how doable it was for Oswald or anybody else. I found it educational. The thing that shocked me while playing was realizing that Oswald could have decapitated the government that day. The president, VP, the secretary of state and I can't remember who else were in the motorcade. It could have been far worse.

[@jennegatron]

Another banger from Simone and I loved the little voice cameo from Producer Pat for the credits

[@MaeveByTheWaves]

Not to take away from the great video, but Simone’s delivery of “Shooting em” in the last few seconds had me dying 😂

[@kubaskrzypkowski6445]

Great vid!!! I rly like her humour and the headier topics instead of "top 5 princesses to rescue" gaming yt was for so many years

[@Feasco]

are there even that many princesses

[@caseysailor9301]

Okay but do you think we could convince Simone to rank the "top 5 princess to rescue" or would they just like, "all women are queens"?

[@sylvy16]

@@caseysailor9301 but we’re talking about princesses tho. but yeah that would be fun tho i doubt it’s even a real list since i can only think about four video games princesses

[@Giga-lemesh]

Very cool. I will add as someone who isn’t from the US or even the americas all my information about the jfk assassination comes from this kind of media, which means it can be difficult to tell whether a conspiracy theory is completely outlandish or not

[@terrancamaclang]

Responsible storytelling is something I preach. Stories affect us way more than we think they do. Countires are just stories. Money is a story. Power is a story. And the stories we choose for entertainment, affect the versions of those stories in our heads. It is the responsibility of a story teller that the message received, to the best of your ability, is something you are comfortable preaching.

[@severalowls]

I remember hearing about JFK Reloaded on one of those "Gaming News" TV programmes that existed briefly before all that stuff naturally went online instead which presented it pretty seriously... and then downloading and having a blast with it for hours. There was a popular modded version with extra chaotic features called JFK Revolutions which I only realised was a cheeky Matrix trilogy joke years later. Conceptually playing death dolls with a real life historical event and representations of real people might be questionable... But also we're due for JFK Resurrections ;)

[@milehighkush]

A Kennedy announces his run for office. Polygon releases this video. "Alright FBI man i believe the democrats didnt shoot JFK, there am i ok now?" Laser beam suddenly vanishes from my forehead.

[@HuxTheSergal]

Well if he doesn't like to be killed so much maybe he should stop coming back?

[@Owldude7]

his head just did that

[@bretscofield]

Just want to say, I can never get enough video essays by Polygon folks. Love 'em, and by far some of the best content out there

[@RachelTurtlebaum]

A polygon blooper reel always makes my day

[@Nixitur]

The greatest moment in JFK Reloaded is when the Freelance Astronauts shot the hat off of the First Lady's head without injuring anybody.

[@LocalNekomi]

Glad we're back in the studio I missed the muticam *sidecut

[@lokiiago_x0x]

Really cool points toward the end about underrepresented folks and stories x0x

[@emilynelson5985]

It didn’t help that HW and the Dulles brothers went above and beyond earning a reputation and Robert McNamara was there to tell people that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had just pitched operation Northwoods.

[@revilno]

You can’t tell Lee (Harvey Oswald) what to do!

[@sterlingpratt4901]

I love Simone, I love polygon videos, please make more

[@TubiTuesdays]

You first. I haven't brought him up since I killed him the last time.

[@HEYimHeroic]

my jfk theory is there was no assassination. his head just does that sometimes

[@Raika63]

I tend to enjoy alt history games. Some of the assassins creed stuff is fun (or C&C Red Alert), and ultimately some of the less ridiculous stuff you end up searching whether it really happened or not and learning some often weird history.

[@Sven2andahalf]

"We have got to stop killing JFK." Me: sighs and put down rifle "...in video games." Me: smiles as I line up the mototcade in the scope

[@cinnamon_shakes]

the lil bloopers at the end give me life

[@yawmanr]

In before title change due to demonetization

[@moriah.]

this video was so interesting and fun!! also I'm dying to know where Simone got her outfit, she is a fashion icon always

[@hapalops3905]

I believe that expecting all three shots to be Oswald is unfair. I support the theory that one shot was the secret service agent who trips and hits his body into the car. Because history is full of dumb stupid things

[@xnitropunkx]

Poly really trying to appeal to boomers directly now

[@reneew8181]

Because only boomers are interested in history?

[@RATMAN97100]

This video it´s amazing, great work.

[@FracturesInTheSky]

Maybe the real Mason was the friends we made along the way

[@decodyg484]

🤗

[@hoagie911]

After learning about MK Ultra I've found it hard to place any trust in the US spy agencies

[@miguelgalindo849]

Awesome vid Simone!

[@cookiestar3069]

Love this. Great work!

[@annalisasteinnes]

The old British Sci-Fi show Red Dwarf has a great episode where the characters end up time traveling and accidentally prevent JFK's assassination. But that creates an even worse timeline than the one we know. So they take JFK back in time *again* and he becomes the second shooter on the grassy knoll, killing himself for the common good.

[@Michael_Lindell]

These games put the story in history.

[@bluenorthlion123]

didn't expect our Eurovision entry in a polygon video lmao

[@xiggywiggs]

I've been playing videogames and specifically PC games regularly for three decades and today I just learned there are games that feature the JFK assassination.

[@chikinfrydsteak]

Sound effects without graphics near the beginning of the episode. Still a great video!

[@tophergrallison]

One man. Once died. But did you know that he could read all our minds?

[@LivelyPaint]

I’ve been waiting for another tease for your Spycraft doc just to let me know it’s still coming out haha

[@loganl3746]

Are the graphics a bit off in this video? Like theres no background and some graphics seem to be missing (audio cues at the beginning like game titles should be popping up but dont)?

[@ezzyleerock2009]

The Hitman JFK assignation level was so fun

[@Zahaqiel]

Played JFK Reloaded ages back. It's relatively easy to get very close to Harvey's shots with a little practice, even if you don't get them exactly. It's also possible to flip the car by making the driver panic and kill everyone.

[@mercantilehoward7601]

Imagine playing wolfenstein and thinking the nazis won because the game has documentary footage

[@carsonm7292]

Should have left the tripod hit shot from the bloopers in tbh. In less lighthearted omissions, there were subsequent official inquiries that cast real doubts on the conclusion that Oswald was the only shooter. Like, unequivocally stating that that conclusion was wrong and that there was more than one. The conspiracy theories that spring around the JFK assassination are definitely just wild, but specifically with regards to Oswald being the sole gunman that day, there's definitely *something* going on there that's out of line with the Warren report.

[@stone5against1]

Very interesting, thanks Simone

[@therranolleo468]

One of my fav use of this troupe is probably at the end of Mafia 3, the hearing with the senate went buttfuck wild when the JFK bomb dropped out of fucking nowhere and guns starts firing

[@benhillman8384]

“This is of course in no way an advertorial for Grassy Knoll Simulator entering early access.”

[@Berry_Time]

Nice try with the psyop vid, Polygon.

[@Michael_Lindell]

But who was on the grassy Polygon?

[@tommybarrett2968]

Joe Lieberman and Polygon agree: it's those dang video games

[@cedricksusername]

if video games thought me anything is that Oswald was a Templar and Ruby was an Assassin involved in a revenge plot

[@FelixWarren]

Do some basic research on the Zapruder Film and you'll find it wasn't seen by the public until six years after the assassination, in 1969, for Claw Shaw's trial. First television broadcast in 1970. First network broadcast in 1975. Before then, there were stills available in Life magazine articles. There would have been no home recording devices available then for home viewers to be able to watch it again. Where were all of these public citizens seeing the Zapruder Film the way it's phrased in the video? Oliver Stone's film is probably the place where the most people have seen it, and that came out in 1991. The whole premise that JFK's assassination is "different" in history because it was so widely available for the public to see is pretty shaky when you realize that until the film was available to watch on the internet, it wasn't widely available to see anywhere, and in fact was highly litigated on when it came to rights. This video comes across like you want to take advantage of all the conspiracy theory clicks on KZbin without getting your hands too dirty by actually digging deep enough into the JFK assassination to understand it. Yeah, we get that believing whole-hog in conspiracy theories without critical thinking and research isn't a great idea, but at least the believers do basic reading on the subject. The above paragraph is all information you can get from one wikipedia article.

[@T0rnii]

i instantly thought of jfk reloaded and a stream i watched back in the day of ppl playing horse with it by doing trick shots like killing no one but shooting the hat off the first lady

[@trelauney]

Now i want a game to test how many things went wrong at Chernobyl

[@ethantinklenberg6607]

“The Gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald” don’t. Don’t even try. We know it wasn’t him 😂

[@lillieampurra]

counterpoint: his head keeps doing that

[@thomicfee529]

“In video games” So I’m still good to do it in real life?

[@ryncores1803]

Honestly Imma call it. His body gaurd friendly fired him or was maybe a CIA plant.

[@bwagner23]

it's giving Unraveled! Though could've done with more unhinged printouts pinned to the wall...