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Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley comes to stay at the Boarding Home that the Gumps run. Young Forrest dances in a very odd way while Elvis plays the guitar. This eventually inspires Elvis Presley to find new dance moves similar to those that Forrest showed him. -
University of Alabama football
Forrest is apart of the football tean at Alabama University and is a huge factor on how they won there football games. This is refernce to when Paul Bryant became the coach for AU and started a historcal winning streak. -
Vietnam War
Forrest is sent to Vietnam to be a soldier -
The Civil Rights Movement
He attented the university of Alabama where he witnessed Gov. Wallace blocking the entrance to the school during desegregation. -
The Hippie movement
Forest is in D.C cause he just recieved a medal he soon finds him associating himself with the Hippie Culture in an Anti-Vietnam War rally. Forrest Gump is about to give a speech on his feelings about the war in Vietnam, when the speaker system malfunctions and his speech is never heard. This is a true event and people say the gov. messed with sound. -
The Black Panther Party
Forrest goes with Jenny to a Panather Party where he meets the head of The Black Panther Party.The Black Panther Party was an African American revolutionary leftist organization from 1966-1982. They believed in preventing racism against blacks, and that all blacks deserved to be treated equally to whites in society. -
Smiley Face
While Gump was on his running msiion a man asks Forrest Gump for ideas of T-shirt designs. Forrest Gump wipes his muddy face on a T-shirt and the movie shows a smiley face on the T-shirt. which soon becomes a famous and very popular symbol in the United States It is during the 1970's that the smiley face was invented to show a stylized representation of a smiling human face. -
Watergate Scandal
Forrest Gump witnesses the Watergate Scandal from the Watergate hotel, and he calls in the break in thinking it was aporblem with the power cause the robbers where using flashlights. -
Hurricane Carmen
Hurricane Carmen damaged the fishing and shrimping industry. It caused new water consistency that made shrimp lack. In the movie Forrest is the only boat on the coast of Louisiana that wasnt wrecked which caused him to be a dominant shrimping boat. Thois leads to the founding of Bubba Gump Shrimp. -
Apple
When Forrest Gump bacame rish fro Bubba Gump shrimp he was asked to invest in apple. He calls it "some kind of fruit company". -
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9/11 pictures
While Forrest is in NYC he is taking pictures for Jennys Memory book that she gave to him where he ends up taking pictures of the attack on the World Trade Center, -
No Child Left Behind Act
Forrest JR. is now in highschool and has to start taking national standarized test. -
Seal Team Six
Forrest Jr wants to follw his father and be apart of different historical events, he inlist into Seal Team Six where he is aoart of th killing of Osama Bin Ladin
