How Did Forrest Gump Change From The 1980's?

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In the movie Forrest Gump, Forrest is faced with many historical events from the 1960’s to 1980’s. Many of those events changed his life and most of the events he doesn’t understand. This movie ties in all these events that make Forrest a millionaire and upholds his character to a brighter aspect. Some of the major events he was presented in are the Vietnam War, the Watergate Scandal, and the Black Panther Party.
Forrest is recruited to the army after he graduates from the University of Alabama. He meets a friend named Bubba and is introduced into the shrimp business. Forrest gives advice to follows orders and he is fast at assembling his gun. He flies out to Vietnam and meets Lieutenant Dan. They walk the country and it never stops raining until one day they are attacked by Guerrilla troops. Forrest …show more content…

The president and some advisers thought they needed a forced presidential campaign to win. In May 1972, members of Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) broke into the Democratic headquarters at the watergate hotel and stole copies of top-secret documents and bugged the office’s phones. As the group prepared to break into the office again, a security guard noticed that they had taped the building’s locks. The guard called the police, who arrived catching the spies. Later suspicions rose about the president’s involvement when detectives found copies of the White House phone number among the burglars’ belongings. In August, Nixon gave a speech and swore that his White House staff was not involved in the break-in. Most voters believed him, and in November the president was reelected by a landslide. A few days after the break-in he arranged to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars in “hush money” to the burglars. Then, he and his aides planned to have the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to stop the FBI’s investigation of the

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