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Elvis
Forrest invented Elvis Presley's famous dance. Forrest danced for Elvis when he was staying at his house. Later Elvis was shown on TV doing the same dance. In the movie we seen how popular Elvis was in that time and that he was known as the king and died several years later.
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Football in Alabama
Forrest Gump started playing football at Alabama State because he's fast. He got noticed running through their practice and they had to get him on their team.
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Meets JFK
Forrest meets JFK. He later talks about JFK's murder.
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Desegregation of Alabama
the southern states were slowly beating the segregation, and Forrest was there when George Wallace tried to stop a black couple from entering the University of Alabama. He later shows the event of the attempted murder towards Wallace that got him paralysed .
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Vietnam War
Forrest joins the Vietnam War, one of the great wars of the 20th century. Many famous songs from that time were playing during the Vietnam scenes, like songs by CCR, Jimi Hendrix and The Doors.
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Ping Pong Diplomacy
Forest was taught how to play ping-pong and became a ping pong master and participates in the Ping Pong Diplomacy, in China. Ping-pong was a big thing in America. The army sent people overseas to play in huge ping-pong tournaments. Nixon was the president at this time.
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KKK
Forrest's ancestor, the one also named Forrest, was Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the initial members of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War.
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Moon Landing
The Moon landing was shown on TV. -
Meets John Lennon
Back to the USA, Forrest meets John Lennon. He later talks about John Lennon's murder, exact 9 years after meeting Forrest. The Beatles were a big part of the seventies and their leader was John Lennon who was later murdered.
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Nixon/Watergate
Nixon invited Forest Gump to stay at the Watergate hotel, where he saw people with flashlights in another room of the complex, outiside of his window.
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Black Panthers
When Forrest got back from war there were scenes of the hippies who wanted world peace in that time. There were also black panthers who wanted there to be equal rights for African Americans. They were extremist and would do anything for it.
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Hurricane Carmen
the hurricane Carmen hits the southern USA, including Bayou La Batre. Hurricane Carmen was the storm shown in the movie. Lt.Dan and Forrest was on the shrimp boat when the storm touched down and they were the only boat that survived during the storm.
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Apple Company
Dan tells Forrest he invested their money on a "fruit company". This fruit company was Apple, which was created by that time and turned into a huge profit very quickly.
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Brands
Famous brands in the 70's and 80's was the Smiley Face and Crap Happens brands. When Forrest was running in the movie the man came and gave him a shirt to wipe his face and he printed a smiley face on it.
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Aids
The aids breakout in the world was in 1981. Jenny started doing heroine and cocaine and back then you could get aids easier. Jenny didn't know she had aids until the doctor later told her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISJ0VsnCvDo
