Assassination of John F. Kennedy in Popular Culture - Miscellaneous

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The card game Chrononauts, which simulates the cause-and-effects of changing history through time-travel, features Kennedy's assassination as a Linchpin card. When flipped (and Kennedy is injured rather than killed), it affects three later Ripple Points: the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and MLK (1968), the Apollo 11 moon landing (1969), and Richard Nixon's resignation (1974).

In the free MMORPG Kingdom of Loathing video game there is a location called "Degrassi Knoll"; the "Knoll Gnolls" who inhabit it are led by a "Mayor Zapruder".

In DC Comics' 100 bullets, a theory is put forward that the shooter on the grassy knoll used the eponymous 100 bullets to kill the president. While no names are mentioned, there is a clear implication that the shooter was baseball player Joe DiMaggio. DiMaggio wanted to kill Kennedy in revenge for Kennedy ordering the murder of DiMaggio's ex-wife, Marilyn Monroe, because she wanted to go public about her love affair with the President. In the story, it appears DiMaggio was not part of any conspiracy plans; it was sheer chance he chose that day and place to kill Kennedy.

In 2004, the video game JFK Reloaded was released, which puts the player in the Texas Book Depository, where he or she attempts to assassinate the president. The game was made in an effort to prove that it was entirely possible for Oswald to have done the shooting by himself.

Kennedy appears as a character in Call of Duty: Black Ops. In a cinematic cutscene he assigns the player character, Alex Mason, to undertake a sabotage mission at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. During this sequence Mason has a hallucination of pointing a pistol at Kennedy's head. Later in the game it's revealed that Mason was brainwashed by the KGB to assassinate Kennedy (it's also implied that Lee Harvey Oswald, who Mason mentions as being "compromised", was also a sleeper agent) and it's heavily implied that Mason did carry out his assignment and killed Kennedy, becoming the legendary second gunman on the grassy knoll.

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