Forrest Gump Events

  • JFK

    JFK
    JFK was one of the presidents during a serious time in our country. He got us out of a missile crisis, but unfortunately was assassinated.
  • Elvis Presly

    Elvis Presly
    Elvis was a music icon of the 50s, he created many amazing songs still listened to today. He died of an overdose after only a few years in his career.
  • John Lennon

    John Lennon
    John lennon was an English singer, songwriter and peace activists who co-founded the Beatles.This band was one of the most famous of the time and still today.
  • KKK

    KKK
    A supremacist group that targeted the black population. Often times beating and murdering because they were the "lesser race".
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam was a bloody war with no winning out come, the American people were very unhappy with the choice to go to war with Vietnam, this was also the first war daft that America saw. This war had jungle war fair and hundreds of deaths on both sides.
  • Hippy movement

    Hippy movement
    This was a large group of people fighting the "man" as they called it which they were referring to the government. They focused hugly on the war at the time, they wanted the government to bring the U.S. army men home.
  • Assasination

    Assasination
    In the 60s and 70s JFK and his brother were both assassinated not far apart in time. When JFK was killed he was the current president of the U.S.
  • Black Panther Party

    Black Panther Party
    A political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, This was a group originally formed to help protect the black community.
  • War draft

    War draft
    The war draft was a time when men were being drafted for the vietnam war. If you were an 18 year old man able to fight you were being sent to vietnam, the U.S. was not the first country to do this.
  • Governor Wallace Assassination

    Governor Wallace Assassination
    Arthur Herman Bremer (born August 21, 1950) is an American convicted for the attempted assassination of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace on May 15, 1972 in Laurel , Maryland, which left Wallace permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
  • WaterGate Scandle

    WaterGate Scandle
    THis was a political scandals while president Nixon was in office, Involving a break in of the Democratic National Committee Headquarters. Nixon knew of the scandal and would be the reason he resigned.
  • A.I.D.S

    A.I.D.S
    A.I.D.S is an immune disease, that can be transmitted through blood, or sexually intercourse. Back when it was first discovered it was called grid and was mostly known to be spread by the gay communities.