A Glasgow-based company has found a peculiar way to mark the 41st anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination: releasing a video game that recreates the event. 'JFK Reloaded' made its debut today much to the outrage of various members of the former president's family.

Kirk Ewing, a spokesman for Traffic Games, the company releasing the game said, 'What we are hoping to do is re-ignite people's passion for history. This is a unique insight into the assassination. We think there's a whole generation of people who have no experience of the Kennedy assassination. The game is effectively a reconstruction of the event using video game technology. It's been covered in every kind of media so far, whether in books or movies, so what we've done is really just to extend that into the interactive media.'

A spokesman for Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, the late president's brother, called the game, 'despicable.'

Meanwhile, historian G. Calvin MacKenzie of Colby College told the Boston Herald, 'Aside from being in incredibly bad taste, the idea of marketing it as an educational tool seems to stretch the notion of education beyond belief.'

The company claims that the game was 'created with the belief that Oswald was the only person that fired the shots on that day, although this recreation proves how immensely difficult his task was.'

The game is available as a download on the internet for $9.95.