NEW YORK – Just in time for today’s 41st anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, a tasteless Internet game is being launched that lets players be Lee Harvey Oswald.

JFKReloaded.com charges contestants $10 to take aim through Oswald’s rifle scope and fire away at a 3-D image of the presidential motorcade passing through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.

“It is despicable,” said a spokesman for Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, JFK’s brother.

Traffic Management Limited of Scotland is proudly taking credit for inventing the game.

The company is even offering a $100,000 prize to the contestant who most accurately re-creates the three shots Oswald fired from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository building on Nov. 22, 1963.

Contestants get points deducted if they accidentally hit first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, whose digital image is decked out in her famous pink-pillbox-hat outfit.

“High scores will come from replicating the timing and accuracy of Oswald’s shots as reported in the Warren Commission’s report into the assassination,” the game says.

Kirk Ewing, Traffic’s managing director, tried to make the game seem like a public service instead of a macabre money-making gimmick.

“This new form of interactive entertainment brings history to life and will stimulate a younger generation of players to take an interest in this fascinating episode of American history,” Ewing said.

“We’ve created the game with the belief that Oswald was the only person that fired the shots on that day, although this re-creation proves how immensely difficult his task was,” he said.

Ewing said he sent a letter to Sen. Kennedy to explain he meant no disrespect to the memory of the country’s 35th president.