INT. BARBER SHOP/GREENBOW - DAY

ANCHORMAN
(on T.V.)

The ceremony was kicked off with a candid speech
by the President regarding the need for further
escalation of the war in Vietnam. President Johnson
awarded four Medals of Honor to men from each of the
Armed Services.

The television reveals Forrest as he is awarded the Medal of Honor by President Johnson.

PRESIDENT JOHNSON

America owes you a debt of gratitude, son.

Color footage revealing President Johnson as he places the award around Forrest's neck and shakes hands.

PRESIDENT JOHNSON

I understand you were wounded. Where were you hit?

FORREST

In the buttocks, sir.

PRESIDENT JOHNSON

Oh, that must be a sight.

President Johnson leans and whispers into Forrest's ear.

PRESIDENT JOHNSON

I'd kinda like to see that.

INT. BARBER SHOP

The television revealing Forrest as he drops his pants, bends over and shows the bullet wound on his bare buttocks. President Johnson looks down and smiles. The three men in the barber shop look up in disbelief. Mrs. Gump looks up in shock.

PRESIDENT JOHNSON

Goddamn, son.

EXT. LINCOLN MEMORIAL - DAY

Forrest walks by the Lincoln Memorial. A fence surrounds the Memorial, as well as armed military guards.

FORREST
(voice-over)

After that, Momma went to the hotel to lay down, so
I went out for a walk to see our national capital.

ISABEL

Hilary, all right, I've got the vets, what do you
want me to do with them?

HILARY

What are you doing here so late?

Forrest takes a photo of the memorial as a woman named Hilary gathers together some veterans against the Vietnam War.

HILARY

We've been waiting for you for half an hour, so
just get them in a line, will you. Hey, hey, come on,
pictures later. You look great. Oh come on, get in
this line, come on, come on right in line. Come on,
let him here, let him in here.

Hilary grabs Forrest and puts him in the line with the other vets against the war.

FORREST
(voice-over)

It's a good thing Momma was resting, 'cause the street
was awful crowded with people looking at all the statues
and monuments. And some of them people were loud and pushy.

Hilary leads the line of vets toward the large anti-Vietnam War rally.

HILARY

Okay, follow me! Come on.

The group of vets walk as Forrest tries to take another picture. A vet behind him pushes him along.

HILARY

Let's move it out.

VET

Hey, buddy, come on. We could use your help.

Forrest walks in the line. A banner reads "Veterans against the War in Vietnam."

FORREST
(voice-over)

Everywhere I went, I had to stand in line.

HILARY

Follow me, let's go!

Hilary leads the vets through a crowd of people outside the rally. Another woman, named Isabel, leads the vets toward the back of a stage.

ISABEL

All right, come on, guys.

HILARY

Stand here.

VET

Hey, you're a good man for doin' this. Good!

FORREST

Okay.

A man, wearing an American flag shirt, stands on the stage. He is anti-war activist ABBIE HOFFMAN.

ABBIE HOFFMAN

We must declare to that ????ing impostor in the
White House -- Johnson. We ain't going to work on
your farm no more! Yeah!

FORREST
(voice-over)

There was this man, giving a little talk. And for
some reason, he was wearing an American flag for a shirt...

ABBIE HOFFMAN

Now, I'm going to bring up some soldiers that are
going to talk about the war, man...

FORREST
(voice-over)

... and he liked to say the "F" word. A lot. "F" this
and "F" that. And every time...

ABBIE HOFFMAN

... that war has come home, and we have to stop these
politicians...

FORREST
(voice-over)

... he said "F" word, people, for some reason, well,
they'd cheer.

ABBIE HOFFMAN

... these guys just told Lyndon Johnson where to stick
this ????ing war! Yeah!

Forrest looks up at the cheering crowd. Abbie turns and motions for Forrest to come up on the stage.

ABBIE HOFFMAN

Come on, man. Come up here, man.

HILARY

Come on. Come on. Yeah, you!

Hilary pulls Forrest up onto the stage.

HILARY

Come on, get up there. Come on. Move, move. Let's go!
Let's go.

The other vets follow Forrest pushes onto the stage and push him toward the microphones.

VET

Come on, go. You can do it. Just get up there. Go on.
That's it.

Thousands of cheering protestors stand around the Washington Monument. Forrest looks at the crowd. Abbie Hoffmann steps up to Forrest.

ABBIE HOFFMAN

Tell us a little bit about the war, man.

FORREST

The war in Vietnam?

ABBIE HOFFMAN

The war in Viet-????ing-nam!

Abbie raises his fist as the crowd cheers wildly.

FORREST

Well...

FORREST
(voice-over)

There was only one thing I could say about the war in
Vietnam.

FORREST

... there was only one thing I could say about the war in Vietnam.

Forrest looks at the crowd as he speaks. A policeman looks around as he sneaks over to the audio circuit board.

FORREST

In Vietnam war...

The policeman pulls the patch cords out of the audio board. Forrest's amplified voice becomes inaudible. Forrest continues to speak into the microphone, even though no one can hear what he is saying. Hilary looks over and notices the policeman. Hilary rushes over toward the audio board, pushes the policeman away and grabs his night stick. Another protestor grabs the policeman and pulls him away.

POLICEMAN

Hey, what the hell are you doing?

HILARY

I'll beat your head in, you goddamned oinker!

Isabel, Hilary and another protestor try to plug the tangled mess of wires back into the audio board.

ISABEL

Christ, what'd they do with this?

Forrest continues to speak into the microphone. The crowd grows restless.

CROWD

We can't hear you! We can't hear anything!

HILARY

This one! This one! Give me that!

Hilary plugs in the right patch cord.

HILARY

That's it.

FORREST

... and that's all I have to say about that.

Forrest looks at the massive crowd. They are silent. Abbie Hoffman steps over to Forrest and pats him on the shoulder.

ABBIE HOFFMAN

That's so right on, man. You said it all.
What's your name, man?

FORREST

My name is Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump.

ABBIE HOFFMAN

Forrest Gump!

Abbie raises his fist into the air. Abbie steps away from Forrest. The crowd cheers.

CROWD

Forrest Gump!

JENNY
(screaming)

Forrest! Forrest!

Jenny wades out into the reflection pool and waves her hand into the air. Forrest recognizes her.

FORREST

Jenny!

Forrest rushes off the stage as Jenny makes her way out into the pool.

JENNY

Forrest!

Forrest jumps down into the crowd and runs. Jenny smiles as she tries to run through the water. The crowd parts as Forrest runs into the pool. Jenny rushes toward him.

JENNY

Hey! Hey!

The massive crowd cheers for the embracing couple in the pool.

FORREST
(voice-over)

It was the happiest moment of my life.

EXT. WASHINGTON MONUMENT/PROTESTOR'S ENCAMPMENT - NIGHT

Forrest and Jenny walk past the protestors who are camping out on the lawn.

FORREST
(voice-over)

Jenny and me were just peas and carrots again. She showed
me around, and even introduced me...

INT. BLACK PANTHER HEADQUARTERS/STOREFRONT, D.C. - NIGHT

Forrest stands at an open window and looks at the White House.

FORREST
(voice-over)

... to some of her new friends.

A Black Panther, named RUBEN, steps over and pulls the shades down.

RUBEN

Shut that blind, man. And get your white ass away
from that window. Don't you know we in war here?

Another Black Panther named MASAI grabs Forrest and pats him down.

JENNY

Hey man, he's cool. He's cool. He's one of us.
He's one of us.

MASAI

Let me tell you about us.

WESLEY

Where the hell have you been?

JENNY

I ran into a friend.

MASAI

Our purpose here is to protect our black leaders
from the racial onslaught of the pig who wishes to
brutalize our black leaders, rape our women, and
destroy our black communists.

Black Panther

Masai, phone. Talk to these guys.

WESLEY

Who's the baby killer?

JENNY

This is my good friend I told you about. This is
Forrest Gump. Forrest, this is Wesley. Wesley and I
live together in Berkeley, and he's the president
of the Berkeley chapter of S.D.S.

MASAI

Let me tell you something else.

WESLEY

I want to talk to you.

JENNY

Okay, but...

WESLEY

No. Now! Goddammit!

MASAI

We are here to offer protection and help for all
of those who need our help, because we, the Black
Panthers, are against the war in Vietnam. Yes,
we are against any war where black soldiers are
sent to the front line to die for a country that
hates them. Yes, we are against any war where black
soldiers go to fight and come to be brutalized and
killed in their own communities as they sleep in
their beds at night. Yes, we are against all these
racists and imperial dog acts.

JENNY

You are a ????ing asshole!

Wesley hits Jenny across the face. Slow motion -- Jenny falls back. Slow motion -- Forrest steps forward with rage. Slow motion -- Wesley turns and looks at Forrest. Forrest tackles Wesley and slams him onto a table. Jenny turns and look as Masai pulls out a gun.

JENNY

Forrest! Quit it! Quit it! Forrest! Stop it!

Jenny rushes over to Forrest and pulls Forrest off Wesley.

JENNY

Stop it!

Jenny tries to help Wesley as he moans on the floor. Wesley knocks Jenny's hand away. He gets up, holding his bloody lip.

WESLEY

Oh, God. I shouldn't have brought you here. I should have known it was just gonna be some bull???? hassle.

FORREST

He should not be hitting you, Jenny.

JENNY

Come on, Forrest.

Jenny steps out the door as Forrest picks up his hat.

FORREST

Sorry I had a fight in the middle of your Black
Panther party.

The group of Black Panthers glare at Forrest. Forrest turns and walks out the room.

EXT. WASHINGTON D.C. - NIGHT

Forrest and Jenny walk past the White House. Protectors hold a candlelight vigil behind them.

JENNY

He doesn't mean it when he does things like this.
He doesn't.

FORREST

I would never hurt you, Jenny.

JENNY

I know you wouldn't, Forrest.

FORREST

I wanted to be your boyfriend.

They walk in silence. Jenny touches Forrest's uni????.

JENNY

That uni???? is a trip, Forrest. You look handsome
in it. You do.

FORREST

You know what?

JENNY

What?

FORREST

I'm glad we were here together in our national capitol.

JENNY

Me too, Forrest. I have so much to tell you, you
won't believe what's been going on...

FORREST
(voice-over)

We waled around all night, Jenny and me, just talkin'.

EXT. ROUTE 66 - FLASHBACK - DAY

Jenny stands in the rain, hitchhiking. A car pulls over to pick her up. Jenny and other other girls get into the car.

FORREST
(voice-over)

She told me about all the travellin' she's done.

EXT. COMMUNE IN NEW MEXICO - NIGHT

A hippie gives Jenny a sugar cube of acid as they sit in front of a roaring fire.

FORREST
(voice-over)

And how she'd discovered ways to expand her mind
and learn how to live in harmony...

EXT. HOLLYWOOD/WALK OF FAME - DAY

A star with the name "Jean Harlow" on the sidewalk. Jenny and two other girls sing on the sidewalk and collect change from the passersby. Jenny plays the guitar.

FORREST
(voice-over)

... which must be out west somewhere, 'cause she made
it all the way to California.

JENNY
(sing)

"Smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to
love on another right now"

A young hippie looks over his faded Volkswagen at the girls.

YOUNG HIPPIE

Hey, anybody want to go to San Francisco?

JENNY

I'll go.

YOUNG HIPPIE

Far out!

EXT. WASHINGTON D.C. - DAWN

Forrest and Jenny walk through the park.

FORREST
(voice-over)

I was a very special night for the two of us. I didn't
want it to end.

EXT. PARKING LOT - EARLY MORNING

Jenny carries a backpack as she prepares to board a bus back to Berkeley.

FORREST

I wish you wouldn't go, Jenny.

JENNY

I have to, Forrest.

WESLEY

Jenny? Things got a little out of hand. It's just
this war and that, that lyin' son-of-a-???? Johnson.
I would never hurt you. You know that.

FORREST

You know what I think? I think you should go home to
Greenbow. Alabama!

JENNY

Forrest, we have very different lives, you know.

Forrest looks down at Jenny. He pulls his Medal of Honor from around his neck.

FORREST

I want you to have this.

Forrest places the Medal of Honor in Jenny's hand. Jenny looks up at him.

JENNY

Forrest, I can't keep this.

FORREST

I got it just by doing what you told me to do.

JENNY

Why're you so good to me?

FORREST

You're my girl.

JENNY

I'll always be your girl.

Jenny and Forrest hug each other. Wesley waits for Jenny. Jenny turns and walks up to Wesley. They walk toward the entrance of the bus. Forrest smiles as Jenny looks at her. Jenny climbs up into the bus. Wesley glares at Forrest. Forrest gives Wesley the "evil eye." Jenny through the near window of the bus, knocks on the window. Forrest turns and looks. Jenny waves to Forrest. Forrest looks up and smiles sadly. Jenny gives Forrest the peace sign as the bus pulls away. The sign on the back of the bus reads "Berkeley to D.C." Forrest gives Jenny the peace sign.

FORREST
(voice-over)

And just like that, she was gone out of my life again.

INT. VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL/REC ROOM - DAY

A footage of Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon on television.

NEIL ARMSTRONG
(on TV)

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for
mankind. The, uh, the surface is fine and powdery.
I can, I can pick it up loosely.

Forrest demonstrates a ping-pong to some wounded vets.

FORREST
(voice-over)

I thought I was going back to Vietnam, but instead,
they decided the best way for me to fight communists
was to play ping-pong. So I was in the Special Services,
traveling around the country cheering up all them
wounded veterans and showing them how to play...

BUS STOP - PRESENT - DAY

Forrest looks at a man.

FORREST

... ping-pong. I was so good that some years later...

EXT. CHINA/PING-PONG TOURNAMENT - FLASHBACK - DAY

Forrest plays ping-pong against a Chinese player. A large mural of Mao Tse-tung hangs on the wall. A crowd of communist leaders sit and watch.

FORREST
(voice-over)

... the Army decided I should be on the All-American
Ping-Pong Team. We were the first Americans to visit
the land of China in like a million years or something
like that, and somebody said that world peace was in our
hands. But all I did was play ping-pong. When I got home...

BUS STOP - PRESENT - DAY

FORREST

... I was national celebrity. Famouser even than
Captain Kangaroo.

Color footage of the DICK CAVETT Show. Dick Cavett stands up as he introduces Forrest.

DICK CAVETT

Here he is, Forrest Gump, right here.

Forrest makes his way onto the stage, shakes hands with Dick Cavett.

DICK CAVETT

Mr. Gump, have a seat.

Forrest sits down between JOHN LENNON and Dick Cavett.

DICK CAVETT

Forrest Gump, John Lennon.

JOHN LENNON

Welcome home.

DICK CAVETT

You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what
was China like?

John Lennon lights a cigarette.

FORREST

Well, in the land of China, people hardly got
nothing at all.

JOHN LENNON

No possessions?

FORREST

And in China, they never go to church.

JOHN LENNON

No religion, too?

DICK CAVETT

Oh. Hard to imagine.

JOHN LENNON

Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.

Forrest looks oddly at John Lennon.

FORREST
(voice-over)

Some years later, that nice young man from England was
on his way home to see his little boy and was signing
some autographs. For no particular reason at all, somebody
shot him.

EXT. STUDIO - LATER

A guard lets Forrest out a side entrance door. Forrest steps, an then stops as he hears s man sitting in a wheelchair speak to him.

LT. DAN

They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor.

FORREST

Now that's Lieutenant Dan. Lieutenant Dan!

Forrest looks at Lt. Dan. He is a dirty with long hair.

LT. DAN

They gave you the Congressional Medal of Honor!

FORREST

Yes sir, they sure did.

LT. DAN

They gave you an imbecile, a moron who goes on television and makes a fool out himself in front of the whole damn country, the Congressional Medal of Honor.

FORREST

Yes, sir.

LT. DAN

Well, then, that's just perfect! Yeah, well I just got
one thing to say to that. Goddamn bless America.

Lt. Dan's wheelchair begins to slide down the ramp and spins around on the icy ground. Forrest looks down at Lt. Dan crashes at the bottom of the ramp.

FORREST

Lieutenant Dan!

EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREETS - NIGHT

Taxi cabs crowd the street as Forrest pushes Lt. Dan along the sidewalk.

FORREST
(voice-over)

Lieutenant Dan said he was living in a hotel. And
because he didn't have no legs, he spent most of his
time exercising his arms.

LT. DAN

Take a right, take a right.

A taxi driver honks his horn as Forrest wheels Lt. Dan out in front of the taxi.

TAXI DRIVER #1

Hey! Come on already!

LT. DAN

Ah!

FORREST

What are you doing here in New York, Lieutenant Dan?

LT. DAN

I'm living off the government tit. Sucking it dry.

A taxi skids to a stop, almost hitting them as they cross the street. The taxi honks at Lt. Dan. Lt. Dan slaps the bumper of the taxi.

LT. DAN

Hey! Hey! Hey! Are you blind? I'm walking here!
Ah, get out...

TAXI DRIVER #2

Why don't you go home before you kill yourself? Get
out of the way!

LT. DAN

Come on, go! Go! Go!

EXT. LT. DAN'S HOTEL ROOM - LATER

A Bob Hope Christmas special in Vietnam on television. Lt. Dan and Forrest watch the television.

FORREST
(voice-over)

I stayed with Lieutenant Dan and celebrated the holidays.

BOB HOPE

You have a great year and hurry home. God bless you.

LT. DAN

Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?

FORREST

I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.

Lt. Dan chuckles, drinks the rest of a bottle of wine and tosses it down. He looks at Forrest. He wheels himself over to television and turns it off.

LT. DAN

That's all these cripples, down at the V.A., that's
all they ever talk about.

Lt. Dan picks up another bottle of port wine, but it is empty. He tosses it onto the floor.

LT. DAN

Jesus this and Jesus that. Have I found Jesus?
They even had a priest come and talk to me. He said
God is listening, but I have to help myself. Now, if
I accept Jesus into my heart, I'll get to walk beside
him in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Lt. Dan tosses the empty liquor bottle down and picks another bottle. He becomes enraged as he throws the bottle and looks at Forrest.

LT. DAN

Did you hear what I said? Walk beside him in the
Kingdom of Heaven. Well, kiss my crippled ass. God
is listening. What a crock of ????.

FORREST

I'm going to heaven, Lieutenant Dan.

LT. DAN

Huh? Ah, well, before you go, why don't you get your
ass down to the corner and get us another bottle of wine.

FORREST

Yes, sir.