October 23: Forrest Gump

October 23, 1971
"Imagine" reaches the Billboard Hot 100 chart

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

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

JOHN LENNON: No possessions?

GUMP: And in China, they never go to church.

LENNON: No religion, too?

CAVETT: Oh. Hard to imagine.

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

FORREST: 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.