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Forrest Gump: Watergate Scandal And Black Panther Party

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The movie Forrest Gump is very historically accurate. It had three main events that actually happened. Those events were, the Vietnam War, the Integration act at the university in Alabama and the hurricane that struck the Gulf of mexico(Hurricane Carmen). With the Vietnam war being the biggest of the events, but it wasn’t entirely correct. The other event were smaller and sort of the side events that was happening throughout the movie. Those were the hippie movement, the Watergate scandal and the Black Panther Party. Throughout the movie I was following Forest and comparing just how accurate his part in the movie is, as opposed to the actual history of those events.
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