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Nathan Bedford Forest
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great civil war hero who Forrest was named after; Founded the KKK after the civil war was over
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Birth of a Nation
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first full length motion picture that sparked the revival of the KKK; a clip from it is in Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks face to make the person look like Forrest
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Paul \"Bear\" Bryant
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coach of the University of Alabama football team who gave Forest a football scholarship to play in college; he's regarded as one of the greatest college football coaches of all time winning 6 national championships
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George Wallace
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governor of Alabama who wouldn't let UA be integrated by symbolically standing in the doorway; Forest gave the black girl walking in a book that was thrown at her
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John F. Kennedy
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Forest got to meet him after he was named all-american for football and told the president that he has to pee; 35th and youngest president
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Marilyn Monroe
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Forest saw a signed picture of her in JFK's bathroom after he had to pee; famous actress and sex symbol in the 50's (Norma Jean Baker)
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Joan Baez
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a famous singer who Jenny wants to be like; folk singer from the 60's and 70's who had an affair with Bob Dylan
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\"All Along the Watchtower\"
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a song, originally played by Bob Dylan but made famous by Jimmy Hendrix, that was playing as they were walking in Vietnam; the Hendrix version is listed as the 47th greatest song of all time by the Rolling Stone Magazine
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Charlie
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a nickname for the Vietcong; a soldier told Forrest to watch out for Charlie
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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He awarded a medal of honor to Forrest for his work in Vietnam and Forrest showed him the wound on his buttocks; 36th president
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\"Blowin' in the Wind\"
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the song Jenny sang while naked at the gentleman's club in Memphis; released in 1962 by Bob Dylan and is listed as the 14th greatest song of all time by the Rolling Stone
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SDS
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students for a democratic society; protested the war in Vietnam in a March on Washington where Forrest saw Jenny
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\"Turn, Turn, Turn\"
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a song written by Pete Seeger but the Byrds version was used in the movie when Jenny was leaving on the bus and shoots Forrest a peace sign
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Black Panther Party
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Jenny is a member of them and brings Forrest to meet them and he fights against Jenny's boyfriend there; a black power and black nationalist group
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Abbie Hoffman
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Forrest says that he liked to say the \"F\" word a lot and whenever he said it, people would cheer. In the movie, he gave a speech in Washington protesting the Vietnam war; Founder of the Yippies
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\"For what it's Worth\"
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a Buffalo Springfield song written by ;used where Forrest is going through the rain in Vietnam
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Richard M. Nixon
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37th president who was impeached for the Watergate scandal; rewarded Forrest for being on the national ping pong team
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Watergate Hotel
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a hotel that Nixon recommendedForrest to stay at where he saw the Watergate thing happening;
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Dick Cavett
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interviewed Forrest about China, television talk show host
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John Lennon
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a member of the Beatles who Forrest met on the caveat show, talked the lyrics of imagine
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\"Imagine\"
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John Lennon used Forrest's answers on the show to write this song
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
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a southern rock group from Jacksonville; \"Sweet Home Alabama,\" one of their songs, is played
