Forrestal

"Competitor. He was good, he was very good."

- Indiana Jones

Doctor Forrestal was an archaeologist who taught history and archaeology at Princeton University.

Biography
In 1930, Forrestal was in Sweden searching for a pagan temple. Jones initially believed Forrestal to be one step ahead of him, though Jones and Dr. Lawrence reached the site first, due to better research.



Four years later, Forrestal set up camp in South America near an area littered with the bodies of adventurers who had succumbed to the traps around the mysterious Moon Door. He also discovered a river flowing out from beneath El Dorado and informed the Adventure Society, who was excavating the area in and around El Dorado as "a gesture of goodwill".

Forrestal disappeared while searching for the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol in Peru in 1935.

Upon his disappearance, the National Museum contracted Indiana Jones to follow Forrestal's notes and research so that he could both find out what happened to Forrestal's missing expedition and, if possible, recover the Idol.

It was in the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors that Jones discovered Forrestal's body, speared by a row of sharp spikes triggered by a source of light. It was one of the many traps protecting the Idol.

Appearances

 * Indiana Jones Adventures: Volume 1
 * Indiana Jones Adventure World
 * Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods
 * Raiders of the Lost Ark
 * Raiders of the Lost Ark novel
 * Raiders of the Lost Ark comic
 * Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark junior novel
 * Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
 * Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine

Notes and references
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