September 8: Forrest Gump

September 8, 1971

Forrest, fresh from his China trip with the All-American Ping Pong Team, is a guest on the Dick Cavett Show with John Lennon, recorded September 8, broadcast on ABC September 12 and 19.

CAVETT: You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what was China like?
GUMP: Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.
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.