Fascinating Facts About ‘Forrest Gump’

Published on August 19, 2019 By Jason Albert

Meeting Presidents

Over the course of the film, Forrest Gump was invited to the White House to meet with the sitting President. During these scenes, Zemeckis experimented with more technology that was groundbreaking at the time.

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When meeting with President Johnson, the footage is actually real and tweaked a little bit for the film. The Medal of Honor footage originally saw LBJ meet with Sammy L. Davis in 1968. Well, the filmmakers just used that footage but superimposed Hanks’ head onto the footage instead.