Forrest Gump: 10 Things You Must Know About This Tom Hanks Movie

The timeline did not add up in the running scene. It was said that he was running for three years and two months. Forrest started running on October 1, 1979. That was the day President Jimmy Carter collapsed due to heat exhaustion. A year and a half after that event, Forrest received a letter from Jenny. The news about President Ronald Reagan’s assassination attempt on March 30, 1981, can be heard.