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On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed riding in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Forrest hip dances for a young boarder (Elvis).
Elvis Presley "Hound Dog" 1 Jan 1956.
Elvin Presley sings and dances to Hound Dog on live TV.
On October 15, 1969, approximately 250,000 protestors of the conflict in Vietnam marched on Washington.
Two million total across the country participated in a moratorium against the war.
Forrest Gump stumbled upon the rally after meeting President Johnson , and spoke in front of the protestors at the National Mall.
Hurricane Carmen was an intense tropical storm, which caused 10,000 Louisiana residents to flee their homes, and damaged the sugar industry.
Forrest and Lieutenant Dan are stuck on their boat during the storm, which destroys all the other shrimping boats, and creates a monopoly for Bubba Gump Shrimp.
Forrest Gump met President Kennedy when he invited the all-American football team to the White House, and Forrest mentions his assassination.
He ran to the end of town, the end of the county, the end of the state, and to the end of the coast. Then he ran back a few times. But how far did Forrest Gump run? And for how long? Centives decided to find out.
We know that he began in his fictional hometown of Greenbow Alabama on October 1, 1979. The date is given away when a newscaster announces that President Carter had collapsed that day due to heat exhaustion as Forrest runs through town.
The United States entered Vietnam in 1961, and remained in active combat until 1973.
The conflict was part of the Cold War and the United States' battle against communism. It resulted in a stalemate with more than 58,000 American casualties.
Forrest Gump is deployed in Vietnam in approximately 1966 and later receives a Congressional Medal of Honor.
On June 11, 1963, Governor George Wallace temporarily blocked African American students from entering the University of Alabama by positioning himself and the National Between them and the entrance.
The United States was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, first noticed by doctors in young gay men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981. In the United States, 1.2 million people live with HIV, about 1/8th of whom are unaware of their infection.
In 1980, the Apple Corporation went public, and made several employees and shareholders instant milllionaires.
This marked the beginning of the technology-fueled economy in the United States.
Forrest Gump invests in Apple around 1980, and becomes ans instant milllionaire.
The era of ping pong diplomacy began in 1971, when the People's Republic of China invited the United States table tennis team to their nation to compete.
President Nixon used this overture as a springboard for further diplomatic relations.
Forrest Gump played the ping pong champion who initiated the diplomatic relations between the US and China.
The Vietnam War was a war between North and South Vietnam, each of which was backed by numerous other powers, making it a proxy war.
Forrest Gump served in the United States Army during this war. During the course of his deployment, he saved numerous of his comrades, even when io the buttock.
For his actions, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Forrest Gump appears in the film of the African American students entering the University, and picks up Vivian Malone's notebook.