A Historic Mistake
Here’s a blooper that many of us missed in the movie. It took place in the timeline of the running scene. In the movie’s narration, Forrest said that he was running for three years and two months. But if you paid close attention, you would have noticed that it didn’t add up. Forrest started running on the day that President Carter collapsed from heatstroke on October 1, 1979.
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But by the time he got Jenny’s letter after the race, President Reagan’s assassination attempt was breaking news, making his run only around a year and a half.
President Jimmy Carter collapsed when he was running a six-mile race. White House physicians diagnosed him with heat exhaustion and declared him to be “perfectly normal.” 90 minutes later, Carter handed out trophies at the finish line.