Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "David Hoffman" channel.

  1. Here’s a surprise: being a girl that age when hormones kick in is no picnic, either. We’ll just suddenly say something sharp or nasty to someone, then even we will wonder where that came from. It’s a hard time of life for everyone.
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  2. Wonderful interview! It brought back so many amazing memories, both good and bad (I was in college when Woodstock and Kent State happened). As someone who lived through that era and became a hippie, I can tell you that it was a life-altering moment in history. My politics still reflect that change, and I so wish musicians today would write songs speaking out against the ugly things that are happening now that are so similar to what happened then to inspire that kind of music and bring people together in the kind of peace-and earth-loving comraderie we had then. They changed history for the better then, and I’d like to see that same kind of change now.
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  3. This was wonderful, David. Thank you. It’s really amazing that this was actually aired on TV in 1958. It was only a year later when my family moved from the Midwest to Florida, and I remember being stunned, even as a child, to see “Colored only” signs in public. Fortunately, that wasn’t allowed too much longer, but there were still segregated schools and neighborhoods. I never understood it, as I had grown up in a military area where I went to school with kids from all over the world, so that had seemed a perfectly normal thing to me as a kid.
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  4. AmericanPatriot, “this bad”? It was also wonderful. Yes, there were problems, but there was also a great awakening to making this a more loving, caring society where people matter more in society than the previous rigidity of simply accepting what we were told to be, think and do. It was a whole new world of intellectual, spiritual and creative pursuits, allowing us to think for ourselves and make decisions for our own lives.
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  5. Mine too. Many times.
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  6. Good documentary, David. Well done.
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  7.  @kaneja  I agree. I noticed that everyone on the tape had the “Mid-Atlantic accent” that was so popular in movies, radio and TV in the 1940s and 1950s (and it required being taught, as it’s not really a natural accent from anywhere). The good doctor himself spoke the same way. Makes me wonder if perhaps he had an aspiration to be an actor, or a radio or TV announcer, or at least a voice-over artist, as those professions were the primary ones using the training. I find accents and dialects fascinating, and was recently watching a YT video about the Mid-Atlantic accent.
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  8. That’s an interesting theory when you consider that it has recently been proven that Neanderthals and Humans (homo sapiens) mated and produced offspring, and many people today have been discovered to still have Neanderthal DNA in their ancestry even though they look completely human, as did the Denisovans (early proto-humans in Asia) and Humans. This was discovered because of all the DNA testing going on now. So, would you say, therefore, that humans and Neanderthals are inherently the same? Honestly, I’m not sure what to think, because how could they have mated and produced offspring in the first place? (Well, the mating part I understand, but offspring?). We’re all descended from apes, but apparently something changed in Neanderthals to allow them to produce offspring with humans, which apes can’t do.
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  9. Lovely attitude. We are the ones who can make the world a better place...through kindness.
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