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kennedy
kennedy was a president who also got shot but he did not live. he had just got elected and his wife and him were in the car for a parade and then next thing you know he gets shot.
girls thought he was really dreamy -
Vietnam
Forest Gump went into vietnam war and lost some of his friends. It is still undetermined because people keep arguing about why we went to vietnam war. this war lasted roughly 20 years.
http://www.businessinsider.com/17-wild-facts-about-the-vietnam-war-2015-7
https://www.fpri.org/article/2017/04/united-states-went-war-vietnam/
https://thevietnamwar.info/how-long-was-the-vietnam-war/ -
ping pong championship
forest gump at first did not know how to play ping pong so one of his buddies from the army taught him how to play ping pong then her became the worlds best ping pong player. he went to competitions and even talked to the president.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJ4wh1kwR8 -
nixon
nixon was the 37th president but not a very good one. he hid the white house tapes in a drawer. when he got confronted about them he said nothing but then he deleted everything off of the tapes so that he wont get caught. -
water gate
forest gump was talking to regan about water gate
http://www.youtube.com/bestmoviequote
https://sites.google.com/site/forestgumpapush/home/watergate-scandal -
president reagan
he got shot but lived. he resigned after forest gump complained about the flashlights
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/13/528222995/the-shadowy-history-of-secret-white-house-tapes -
vietnam war wall
58,272 names listed on the Memorial Approximately 1200 of these are listed as missing (MIA's, POW's, and others). this wall is really big
http://thewall-usa.com/information.asp -
AIDS
we talked vaguely about AIDS we watched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeB0TWC_D9s
this disease can only be transferred by sexual activity
Robert Gallo had discovered what aids where -
space shuttle explosion
a few minutes after take off there was an explosion but the people on the ground thought that it was successful. then they realized that it had exploded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSTrmJtHLFU -
forest gump
Forrest Gump was a great movie in some parts it was really sad. most parts were really funny. it was a really catchy movie and I really loved it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMxENmG3Tyw
there is a trailer of it
