1. and American Realities
Forrest Gump
and American Realities
By Chumbalova Oksana
School #8, Dubna, Russia

2. Personalities The Presidents of the USA
John F. Kennedy
 Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford

3. Forrest meets John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office as a member of the All-American Football team.

4. Can you see Forrest?

5. John F. Kennedy assassination is mentioned in Forrest Gump.

6. Shortly after JFK death, Forrest mentions the death of his brother Robert F. Kennedy.

7. Forrest was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and he was given it by President Lyndon B. Johnson
L. Davis receives the Medal of Honor from
President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House in 1968.

8. President Richard M. Nixon receives the U. S
President Richard M. Nixon receives the U.S. Ping-Pong Team at an Oval Office ceremony.Forrest is named Player Of The Year for 1971.
Ping-Pong diplomacy resulted in
re-opening U.S.-China relations.

9. Watergate Scandal. The ping-pong team is accomodated in the Watergate Hotel. Gump witnesses a burglary and calls a security.
President Nixon: "Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency
effective at noon tomorrow."

10. Watergate Scandal.
The Watergate is a complex of residential, office and hotel accommodation in Washington, DC, where a suite of rooms had been rented by the Democratic Party National Committee for the presidential election campaign of These rooms were burgled by a group of people working under the orders of senior members of the Republican Party, including some holding important positions on President Richard Nixon’s White House staff. The aim of the burglars had been to gain information about Democratic campaign plans. The discovery of the burglars and their subsequent trials started a massive media campaign ended by incriminating a host of major and minor figures for attempting to cover up the White House connections. It became increasingly clear, however, that the president himself had been involved in the cover-up, and members of the House of Representatives began to move for his impeachment.
At the same time secret tape recordings the president had made of conversations in the White House came to be revealed. Nixon’s attempts to prevent the court proceedings were finally overthrown by the Supreme Court. The culmination of these developments led to Nixon’s resignation in 1974.

11. 1) The Watergate is a complex of residential, office and hotel accommodation in Washington, DC, where a suite of rooms had been rented by the Democratic Party National Committee for the presidential election campaign of 1972.
2) The aim of the burglars had been to gain information about Democratic
campaign plans.
3) It became increasingly clear, however, that the president himself had been
involved in the cover-up…
4) At the same time secret tape recordings the president had made of
conversations in the White House came to be revealed.

12. Other figures and events
Ku Klux Klan
George Wallace
Army Recruitment Propaganda
Hippies
Vietnam
Black Panther Party
Anti-War Rally
Elvis Presley
John Lennon
Shit Happens
Bubba Gump Shrimps
Apples

13. Ku Klux Klan "Now, when I was a baby, Momma named
me after the great Civil War hero, General
Nathan Bedford Forrest... She said we
were related to him in some way. And,
what he did was, he started up this club
called the Ku Klux Klan…”
Nathan Bedford Forrest
an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan

14. “They'd all dress up in their robes and their bedsheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something. They'd even put bedsheets on their horses and ride around. And anyway, that's how I got my name. Forrest Gump. Momma said that the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense.”

15. Elvis Presley Elvis Presley's introduction of "Hound Dog" scandalized
the TV audience with his suggestive hip movements
inspired by little Forrest’s walk.

16. Elvis Presley (1935 – 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis and as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".

17. George Wallace
Former Governor George Wallace makes his symbolic stand in the doorway at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in 1963 before allowing two African-American students to enter and integrate the school.

18. Hurricane Carmen
Hurricane Carmen was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season, causing at least 50 million US dollars in damages.
Hurricanes are usually called by human names, e.g. Katrina, Rita, Ivan, Ike, Andrew, etc.

19. Hurricane Carmen hits Louisiana
shore. Dan and Forrest take
their shrimp boat out. It is the only
boat to survive the storm.

20. Bubba Gump Shrimps In 1994 Bubba Gump Shrimp
Co. Restaurant and Market chain of
seafood restaurants was a reality,
and was inspired by the 1994
film Forrest Gump. They now
have 28 resturants.

21. Shit Happens Bumper Sticker Guy: WOAH! Man, you just ran
through a big pile of dog shit! Forrest Gump: It happens. Bumper Sticker guy: What, shit? Forrest Gump: Sometimes.

22. Apple
FORREST: "He did take care of my Bubba-Gump money. He got me invested in some kind of fruit company. And so then I got a call from him saying we don't have to worry about money no more."

23. Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.

24. Army Recruitment Propaganda
[Forrest has just graduated from college] Recruit Officer: Have you given any thought to your future, son? Forrest Gump: "Thought"?

25. Hippies
Hippies’ slogan says
“Make love, not war”

26. Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1955 to April 1975.
The opposition to the Vietnam War turned to street protests in an effort to turn U.S. political opinion. On 15 October 1969 the protest attracted millions of Americans.

27. Vietnam
In 1967, Forrest and Bubba are sent to Vietnam, and after several months of patrolling with the 9th Infantry Division their platoon is attacked.
Though Forrest rescues many
of the men in his unit, Bubba is
killed in action. Forrest is wounded
in the buttocks during the battle,
and is awarded the Medal of Honor
for his heroism.

28. Black Panther Party
The Party was founded in 1966 to protect the rights of Afro-Americans and demanded to end all wars of aggression.
Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton

29. Anti-War Rally
Abbie Hoffman. Arrested for inciting to riot as a result of his role in anti-Vietnam War protests.

30. Forrest, fresh from his China trip with the All-American Ping Pong Team, is a guest on the Dick Cavett Show with John Lennon.
CAVETT: You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what was China like? GUMP: Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all. LENNON: No possessions? GUMP: And in China, they never go to church. LENNON: No religion, too? CAVETT: Oh. Hard to imagine.
LENNON: Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.

31. John Lennon and Yoko Ono. John Lennon and Forrest Gump.

32. Imagine written by John Lennon (inspired by Forrest Gump)
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world...