I find the topic of your channel to be a fascinating look into the mindset of your generation. Unfortunately I don't think this will have the effects on millenials you hope it will. It takes a very, well boomer, mindset to assume that if people can just understand where you are coming from it will fix anything or any generational conflict. First, you are not the first boomer to think of this. Boomers are very very vocal about this stuff. They have made documentaries, art and politcal movements celebrating these experiences and trying to help other generations understand them. Look at the comments. These are people celebrating memories not learning something they never knew. Do you really think generations under you haven't seen this before? The issue for generations under you is not that we don't understand where you are coming from, we know your history. The issue is that when we bring real issues up, your generation just goes into these monologs. Your hippy roots do not explain your generations obsession with deregulation. Niether does ikes fairwell address. These are complicated socio politcal issues that have nothing to do with us undersranding you. Seriously I would suggest that instead of trying to school millenials on why you are like what you're like you use your remaining time to do the opposite. Figure out why there is such visceral disagreement with boomer social and economic politcs. You might want to check on stuff on the hypocrisy of the yuppie movement which explains current boomer polical and social behavior far more than this.
@@johnstallings4049 fair enough, but don't take my lack of social graces for lack of a point. I feel like I said something mean go you, and I understand it's not polite to say these things and this isn't the right forum, so I apologize for that. Maybe I should have just left it at some sort of sarcastic joke comment like, oh wow a documentary on sixties culture I've never seen that before I'm sure maybe we really can save the world by just learning about eachothers feelings. Shrug, I'm over verbose, but the glibness of the way you just dealt with me doesn't help either. It's a conundrum, oh well, this is why everyone just posts memes. Genuine question, because that's after my generation but it's super interesting to me, do you have any interest in the zoomers? The kids who came after our two generations war?
@@johnstallings4049 yeah that's sad man. I'm a waiter and a music teacher. I have had many many relationships with people far over 30 when I was a kid whom I thought were awesome, my music teachers. Gigging nyc jazz musicians who I thought had some awesome takes on life. They talked like drunk hillbillies but God they said some brilliant stuff that sticks with me to this day. What I'm trying to tell you is that no, unlike your generation who just didn't trust anyone over 30 the friction between boomers and younger generations actually is more complicated than that. By making frankly silly assumptions about people younger than you, you're just missing out on a lot of great art and smart perspectives. I was always interested in coltrane and hendrix as much as was interested in big, Bradley or two. They're all great, but in every generation their are old men who lack wisdom and get grumpy and old. Would love to recommend documentaries about culture of people younger than either of us, but you don't seem interested. I wonder why your parents called you the me generation?
@@johnstallings4049 I also appreciate the civility, I love watching old history documentaries, and also appreciate that you're taking your time to put this stuff up. I minored in history in college and I genuinely think these things have historical value, your intro just pushed me to maximum snark Death scares the crap out of me as well and I've been dealing with my boomer parents getting to be a lil older than you, I think I've likely just heard that perspective too many times from people I'm close too who I also see looking back at life. It's never too late to enjoy something new or something old. Do whatever makes you happy. If you haven't seen him theres a great young journalist on TH-cam who has been doing documentaries on present day culture. His name is Andrew Callahan, his series are called all gas no breaks and chanel five. He kinda reminds of of a beat poet jack karoack kinda character and he actually confirmed on the road as a major influence in an interview.
Well, not modern human history as a whole, but western societies for sure. Back in those time life in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia or Eastern Germany didn't look as good -> communism.
@@yasso2031 I know it, but I also know that people (in majority) from western countries knows jack shit about life in countries which were part of "Warsaw Pact".
I graduated High School in 1963. Moved to L.A. in 1964 and literally was fortunate to get a career started in music. THEN in 1965 at 19 years of age I got my induction notice. SO, in order to have a choice, I enlisted in the Infantry Division . At the time, it was only one of two openings available. To my surprise, I was not accepted because of an unknown heart problem. I found out decades later that the Division I was to go in were all killed in Viet Nam in 1966. Till this day, I get chills when I think of the young man that took my place. I don't know what God had planed for me, but I hope I haven't let him down. In April, I will be 77.
Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s so much of our culture reflected on the Viet Nam war and the Cold War. I was deeply impacted by the lack of duty people felt towards the war. I also had a deep convection to the Men in those old documentaries fighting the war. After high school I joined the Army as a Paratrooper in the first Gulf War. I joined when most were coming home and was out before any other conflicts happened. The man I trained as a replacement, a few years later was called to Afghanistan. His humvee blew up when an IED exploded leaving him to face 20 reconstructed surgeries as 85% of his body had 3rd degree burns. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about that.
I had 3 brothers serve in Vietnam. One is gone from brain cancer (we believe from AGENT ORANGE), one has been paralyzed living in a wheelchair (no use of his legs) since he came home and the 3rd is okay. My brothers all enlisted. Not happy you have a heart problem, but am pleased you were spared from a senseless war! God Bless!👈
I was surprised to hear that boy talking about his 50/50 chance of being killed in Chicago back then. Thank you for sharing all your films, Mr. Hoffman! Your content is always incredible!!
@@Tj11813 yep but let right wingers tell it it is a new thing. And the mob contained Irish Italian and Jewish folks. Wonder why that is discussed so sparingly these days? They were killing folks. Beating folks. Killing police. But let right wingers tell it all that started in the last 10 years. 😂😂😂😂
Even Cook County jail was such a violent place (not only those jailed)[.] I met some young people who said they’d commit suicide before getting locked up there. I think Chicago has always been a tough place to live-gotta be tough to live there.
I was born in 58. Some of this I'm too young to recall. I was about 5 and remember JFK being killed. I remember parts of the Vietnam War, protests, etc. Mostly kids my ages were worried their older brothers would go to that stupid war. I was lucky to have 2 good parents and 1 older brother. We were probably somewhat poor but had everything we needed and some of what we wanted. I wouldn't trade my childhood for anyone else's. Still have good friends from those days.
Proud to be a boomer . Not just "Sex drugs and rock and roll" . We lived a intellectual , spiritual and philosophical way of life . Most of us abhorred violence . Kids have it rough today, so much depression and no way out.
Yeah. I feel bad you guys get so much flack from my generation (gen z). A lot of you guys are looked at the same way you guys looked at your parents. I understand some of the critismsim but the boomers pretty much started counterculture so its funny to me how gen z looks down on them as not being progressive.
I lived a great deal of this, and what I was not present for, I saw on the news. It felt like the whole world was on the brink of change toward something better. We had received so much conflicting information, and a sanitized history of WWII, false justifications of the Vietnam War…all of which crumbled under the most basic scrutiny. We felt lied to, when what we wanted was truth. It is hard to explain to anyone who didn’t live those times, but this film is the best approach I have seen. Thank you again David, for being the memory of social striving for change…they were electrifying times in which to live.🖤🇨🇦
@@jimsmith9301 I, too grew up in the 50’s. I’m grateful that the Lord rescued me from a life of drugs and the 60’s lifestyle. It was an existence of dead-ends...it’s truly His mercy and grace that saved me from that generation. 🙏🏻🙌🏻✝️
+Trinjtne...that's so awesome!!You should be so proud of yourself...I know how strong the hold those things,& those people especially,can be. So few of those who grew up then,in my experience at least,ever aspire to change or to grow,it's just a life of dead ends,just like you said.So well put. It's like insanity, especially with the drugs,doing the same thing over & over again,thinking it will change or get better...you should be proud of yourself.God bless & best of luck in sobriety...you give me hope!!! 👍🙂👍
@@randyjohnson7734 Thank you. My hope and prayers for you it that you will look to the only one who is able to completely set you free - the Lord Jesus Christ! He lifted me out of the miry pit; gave me hope. It truly wasn’t something I was able to accomplish on my own. Often I would fall back to what had been my “comfort zone “ but He was there every time to wash me clean and set my feet on solid ground. He can and will do the same for everyone of us who are willing to humble ourselves and call out for His wonderful Salvation. May the Lord bless you. I will be praying for you.
I felt such sadness for the young man signing up for Vietnam. Whether his stats were correct or not, it was his perception that he had just as much chance at survival on the battlefield as he did on the streets of Chicago.
Thank you, David. Your channel, videos, clips & stills mean so much. I was born at the end of baby boomer generation. Your comments & comments from others allow for interesting dialog. These have helped bring back heartwarming memories of my family through the years. Yours is surely a channel worthy of support. Thank you & may the Lord richly bless. 💕
Believe me, you didn’t miss much...that lifestyle is not to be envied.. I lived it. Rebellion led to drinking, drugs and ‘free’ sex; but NOTHING is free...it nearly ruined my entire life.
@@CIA.2024-u9b Sadly it is..one can see the even worse fruit of it today - “Do what thou wilt,” is still the evil motto, though the monster is more emboldened. Thank God I was saved at 21 years of age; however, the ramifications of that lifestyle had severely impacted my life. ✝️🙏🏻
@@moose2943 Hey man, I can't completely disagree with u. But don't forget the beauty too. This might be one of those half full things I guess lol. We are often the biggest obstacle in our own way. It wasn't always easy or fun, but it's pretty good now. But it didn't just happen, I carved that sum bitch into existence cause why the fuck not. We will be that nostalgia video to somebody in the future. Not everybody made it into the videos here, be the ones that made it. And lived a way that will be viewed fondly by the future. 👊🤘
Wow! This video captures the essence of what was really happening. They stopped the draft in my 17th year of age, when the VN war was ending. I was deeply aware of the polarization between the hawks and the doves, the conformists and non-conformists, Senior and Youth attitudes, Sexually prudent and promiscuous, clean vs. drug culture, change vs. status quo, etc. it was a time of great upheaval and ideological conflicts. Being from the tail-end of the boomers, not having to be involved in the war, I felt that I was a member of a unique group of individuals now involved in a mandate to restore peace and compromise in the society around us. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called ‘the children of God’” - Jesus of Nazareth. The trick is to not let our trauma turn us into haters.
@David Johnston, Thank you. Amen. Nor can we allow our teachers, preachers, prophets, politicians, talking heads, anyone, to turn us into Haters. So many times in Christ’s teachings and commands we’re warned to: “Beware; Be vigilant; Watch [out]; Do not be deceived...” Also, just as Christ taught us: *Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy.* *But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you;* *That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven:* (Matthew 5:43-45a; kjv)
I can see where my mother got many of her attitudes and values from. She was born in New Zealand in 1955 and although she shared the attitudes around the hippies and breaking of traditions, she actually didnt directly experience much of these political or cultural events being in a small, very isolated little country. It was mostly observed from a distance. She also very much raised me with strong first wave feminist values yet when I reached my mid 20s (in early 2000s) and she saw how independent and autonomous I became, she immediately resented me for it and our relationship fell apart since... im late 30s now and she's bitterly resentful im not married with kids yet, despite me running my own successful business. It was all very confusing and painful for me once, but I've come to realise she's more aligned with the conservative, maintain the status quo camp of the 50s and 60s, than the cool groovy camp I think she pretended / wished to be. I need not be sorry for being a product of her creation, that she then rejected. Not my stuff. Thanks for such a great channel, a lot of looking back helps to understand how to look forward. I actually wonder if most boomers suffered from a similar internal battle with wanting to be the change, but failing to truly break from conservative values. The pressure of others' expectations can be a very heavy weight. We are all the same underneath it all. Feels like the young people in these videos are exactly the same as today. It's shocking yet makes complete sense. Only the technology has changed, humans have not! Gosh this one really got me thinking! 🤯😄
It was a fantastic time to grow up,the care free life style has stuck with me to this day.We all helped change the world.Glad I grew up when I did,no regrets.
I was born in late 63 I remember seeing this stuff on television as a child. The 70s were pretty laid back in the 80s things started to slide down hill.
I always saw it the other way around, the 70’s were crazy times and the 80’s were far more chill. I was born January of 65. My oldest brother was 11 years older than me so I saw a lot just through his experience.
These are my grandparents, then. One set born in ‘40-‘42 and the other in ‘48. The clip of the average young people saying “If you’re a bum and you’re happy, stay a bum” is just so interesting. The boomer generation is fascinating and God bless em
Born in '52, I remember being in grammar school when the Cuban missile crisis was going on. We watched films on how to duck and cover, and practiced it a few times in school. Then came the late 60's. I loved the music and the clothes, the "hippie look" the love beads. But that's about as far as my "hippieness" went! Oh, and all the posters. How could i forget about the posters?!
1961 here so I missed some of this but I will always be grateful to have been born in time to grow up in the 60's and 70's. It was a really amazing time to be alive. Being so young, I was unaware of politics and the more serious side. I just remember feeling free and like I was witnessing something epic. Looking back, I really was. I was born a bit late for the hippie movement but I embraced the peace and love and do your own thing vibe. I still try to live that way. No judgement just love. Blessings, peace, and love. 💛🍄🌼
I can’t say the counter culture has improved things much. In some ways made things worse. Now as they grow old, they are grumpy, self entitled, and completely alienated from their youth if not more than when they alienated themselves from their own parents.
H'mm, so much for "if you remember the 60ties, you weren't there" Thanks a million. I was there. It's coming back. Just realized how angry I am, and how angry, I should have been. Merci
I was there and I remember it. I was 15 and a "runaway". Trying to sleep on a bluff overlooking the Pacific, just South of the Golden Gate bridge. The fog so wet every night and morning. Barely got any sleep because I was always cold. Probably I remember 1967 so vividly, is Because I never did ANY drugs. No cigarettes or alcohol either. I guess it Was the "summer of love" though. Because I got pregnant with my Son before leaving there. OOPS.
This brings back a lot of feelings for me. I'm sick and tired of the control system and want it to end. I hope this time we will finally get ourselves free.
I was there also but what I can't understand is where we all went?? Most don't seem to be standing up and fighting for the same things that are going on in 2022. Sad to say.
In May 1968 my father was beginning a sabbatical year at the University of Essex, in England. I'm not sure why, but he had to visit someone at the Sorbonne (I was 3 at the time). He got caught up in these protests for a few days. As a French Canadian, he spoke French. When he returned to Essex, one of the professors there knew a cabinet minister, so my father ended up briefing the UK government on what was going on in Paris.
The young people of today are no different than the young folks of yesterday. I think they'd be suprised the similarities they share with yesterday''s youth. Well done!
That was a great clip being born in 63.i remember my dad explaining alot of this to me. My dad was a conservative, fair school teacher and l could ask him anything, no matter what it was.
it was an absolutely amazing surprise to see phil ochs in this!!! he’s one of my favorite musicians and my heart did a little jump when i saw him. thank you for this footage!!!!!!
Interesting collection of clips from back then. Especially seeing the protests going on in Europe and Japan. I felt sorry for the Frenchman who had is car ruined. Funny seeing how the belt buckle on the hip was something they did for a time.
People of that time wanted to be free to think. Other people of that time wanted people not to think freely. Has Things really changed that much? People still fighting for their RIGHTS.
Always a critic of my generation though I participated and indulged. The one lady summed it up; many people want to find something bigger than themselves. How ironic then the Boomers were also called the 'Me Generation.' That tension still permeates the air.
The Me Generation was last few years of Boomers. My siblings and I straddle the demarcation line. Even when I was 12 or so I would hear my mother talk about the differences in the 2ends of the children. For the time period she was an older mother. She taught for 11-12 years before having us.
Good Morning David! In my personal opinion I have always felt as if it really didn't matter in What generation period I was born: I honestly think it's all about Self Worth Self Love and Respecting yourself and others! (Learned taught behavior from your home) You need to have Love Happiness Inner Peace Integrity Character Manners Respect Morals and Values. At the end of the day as long as your in Peace because you had good intentions and a Heart that is Pure. You will always see Evil People with bad intentions that enjoy hurting others 💔. We are all born with a gift We are all born so gifted. We are all God's children 🙏.. Now.. It's up to us..... Thanks David I love just watching your videos. I never get enough of seeing them. You are totally so amazing and so Loved by so many of us. Have a great Thursday and sending all my blessings to you and your family 🙏
Sadly, some things never seem to change. Music then and now help us to endure the shaky reality. I probably have been somewhat rebellious most of my life. * I still find it shocking what happened to us baby boomers.
It was a surprise seeing the footage about Paris, Japan, etc. In the later 60's our world consisted of Frisco, cutting school, hitchhiking to to hang out at Haight/Ashbury. Too many impressions of those times to express. This is really cool footage. Thank you.
Another fine video, David. Wow, so many things said bring back memories. What I realize is there were genuine radicals but the majority were want-to-be radicals. I think most of us lived 50 years in a 20 year span. It seems odd to realize how mild I was in comparison to so many. I suppose when one honestly looks back ... well hindsight. After-thought: How about something on the perspective of those that stayed in high school or college or working, and how they (we) viewed what was going on around us?
My mums generation she was born in 1946, same short of stuff happening here in the U.K. but we did have the sense to stay out of Vietnam! Thanks for posting all this stuff, it is very fascinating.
I was born in 1960 so I wasn't a teenager until the 1970s. I am a late boomer. Sure, all that stuff happening was part of the zeitgeist, but my cohorts and I were fairly oblivious to it. I mean, what kid pays that close attention to the news? In 1966 I recall doing the duck and cover drill for tornadoes and just in case the ruskies decided to drop a nuke on our school. Funny, now that talk of WW3 and nuclear armegeddon is being bandied about again, I suspect the kids today are picking up on the agnsty vibrations in the human psycho sphere, just like we did. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
There is a lot in this video, 50/50 chance of staying alive in Chicago or Vietnam. Now days Ukraine is probably safer than Chicago's streets, depending on who you ask.
First of all , that young black kid that was talking about having a 50 /50 chance of living was horrible and i hope he ended up with a great life and maybe still is .Funny Old Ronny Reagan and many public figures of the time that talked about the long hairs ended up thanking them for their contributions in NAM and never realized it lol....If you were born in the 50's or before , you seen all this on tv and in some of your city streets. Thank you for another good one David.
I don’t know why this brought forth so much emotion on me. I suspect it is because the Christo- fascists of our nation seem to be on the cusp of retaking power and this time hold on to it by force.
I was born in 1965, so just missed the boomer generation. It was a time of naïveté, a lost quality in this current over-informed, jaded generation. At least some people can see government propaganda for what it is. I’m surprised the people fell for the medical mandates considering that. Control the press, control the people. That has not changed . Thank you, David, for the important work you are doing.
Love this video 😍 my mom was born in 1940 and married my dad who was born in 1926 allot older than her and was in the Navy had me in 1967 so I remember bits and pieces of 1969 living in Hawaii in Navy housing seeing the hippie's on the beach and the Natives as well yes I am a generation X er but cool to see how the young generation of those days were in your documentary 👍👍❤️🌺🌼🌻🏵️☯️☮️💟
Its a touchy subject I know.. Generations of young people damaged the development of their brains doing drugs. Now I'm 67 and can see the needle & the damage done.
Born in 1959, latecomer to depression era parents (DOB 1916, 1920) my sibs born in 1947 & 1952. Supper was always lively with the news on. Our schools desegregated I was 11 & I graduated in 1977. My folks didn't instill racist crap. They didn't like a " long hair." My mother thought The Beatles needed haircuts & wondered why they couldn't " be nice like those Beach Boys"😂 Re abortion my mother said: this generation thinks they invented abortion. That's been going on since the dawn of time. Every woman knows who to turn to where she lives, and anyone who says not is a GD liar. Interesting time to be a kid...and then there was the 70's!!!!!
I grew up in a small town in the hills, where a lot of hippies flocked to after the party was over in San Francisco. They were my neighbors and their children my friends. Individually, they were the same as anyone else. But as a lifestyle, I have to say, I didn't much value. I hate to say it but their lives lacked sanitation and restraint. Filthy 10 year olds existing on rice cakes and smoking weed they got from their parents. It was just a mess. Most just gave up the dream, which I never really understood what the dream was. They discovered soap and decided money wasn't such a bad thing after all. Then their was the crazies who gifted onto the movement. When the movement died, they moved further out and we avoided them like the plague. They were dangerous and only the really stupid gullible people would gravitate to them, soon to regret it.
I grew up watching the Vietnam war on t v graduated at 17 and joined the army to avoid the draft and get my service over with since then no draft. The younger generation should feel grateful what the boomers did for them. Your welcome
That young, handsome man who said he felt he had the 50-50 chance of coming out alive in Vietnam and Chicago too was the most honest to God truth. Every American of every color should hear that and be shocked and disgusted by that truth. AND - no longer does the government take care of seniors after age 65.
The first thing I noticed about this whole video was the fact that people actually are interacting with other people and have anywhere else to look but down at a phone...
Hopefully, arrogant millennials will watch this. I often wonder how we survived all this upheaval in the 60s. It still breaks my heart. We had to make many choices we had no stability to make. We didn't have an entitled bone in our bodies. But they benefit from all our hard work. What arrogant audacity
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Here is a whole bunch more incredible footage showing what happened back then. th-cam.com/video/plgKnrpvtAI/w-d-xo.html
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I find the topic of your channel to be a fascinating look into the mindset of your generation. Unfortunately I don't think this will have the effects on millenials you hope it will. It takes a very, well boomer, mindset to assume that if people can just understand where you are coming from it will fix anything or any generational conflict.
First, you are not the first boomer to think of this. Boomers are very very vocal about this stuff. They have made documentaries, art and politcal movements celebrating these experiences and trying to help other generations understand them. Look at the comments. These are people celebrating memories not learning something they never knew. Do you really think generations under you haven't seen this before?
The issue for generations under you is not that we don't understand where you are coming from, we know your history. The issue is that when we bring real issues up, your generation just goes into these monologs.
Your hippy roots do not explain your generations obsession with deregulation. Niether does ikes fairwell address. These are complicated socio politcal issues that have nothing to do with us undersranding you.
Seriously I would suggest that instead of trying to school millenials on why you are like what you're like you use your remaining time to do the opposite. Figure out why there is such visceral disagreement with boomer social and economic politcs. You might want to check on stuff on the hypocrisy of the yuppie movement which explains current boomer polical and social behavior far more than this.
@@johnstallings4049 fair enough, but don't take my lack of social graces for lack of a point. I feel like I said something mean go you, and I understand it's not polite to say these things and this isn't the right forum, so I apologize for that.
Maybe I should have just left it at some sort of sarcastic joke comment like, oh wow a documentary on sixties culture I've never seen that before I'm sure maybe we really can save the world by just learning about eachothers feelings. Shrug, I'm over verbose, but the glibness of the way you just dealt with me doesn't help either. It's a conundrum, oh well, this is why everyone just posts memes.
Genuine question, because that's after my generation but it's super interesting to me, do you have any interest in the zoomers? The kids who came after our two generations war?
@@johnstallings4049 yeah that's sad man. I'm a waiter and a music teacher. I have had many many relationships with people far over 30 when I was a kid whom I thought were awesome, my music teachers. Gigging nyc jazz musicians who I thought had some awesome takes on life. They talked like drunk hillbillies but God they said some brilliant stuff that sticks with me to this day.
What I'm trying to tell you is that no, unlike your generation who just didn't trust anyone over 30 the friction between boomers and younger generations actually is more complicated than that. By making frankly silly assumptions about people younger than you, you're just missing out on a lot of great art and smart perspectives.
I was always interested in coltrane and hendrix as much as was interested in big, Bradley or two. They're all great, but in every generation their are old men who lack wisdom and get grumpy and old. Would love to recommend documentaries about culture of people younger than either of us, but you don't seem interested.
I wonder why your parents called you the me generation?
@@johnstallings4049 I also appreciate the civility, I love watching old history documentaries, and also appreciate that you're taking your time to put this stuff up. I minored in history in college and I genuinely think these things have historical value, your intro just pushed me to maximum snark
Death scares the crap out of me as well and I've been dealing with my boomer parents getting to be a lil older than you, I think I've likely just heard that perspective too many times from people I'm close too who I also see looking back at life.
It's never too late to enjoy something new or something old. Do whatever makes you happy. If you haven't seen him theres a great young journalist on TH-cam who has been doing documentaries on present day culture. His name is Andrew Callahan, his series are called all gas no breaks and chanel five. He kinda reminds of of a beat poet jack karoack kinda character and he actually confirmed on the road as a major influence in an interview.
David’s channel is a museum of modern human history.
Love your description
Well, not modern human history as a whole, but western societies for sure. Back in those time life in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia or Eastern Germany didn't look as good -> communism.
He is definitely a top notch curator, and his channel is a work of art - of works of art.
@@lxdead5585 well hes a filmmaker from the us back then so it makes sense
@@yasso2031 I know it, but I also know that people (in majority) from western countries knows jack shit about life in countries which were part of "Warsaw Pact".
I graduated High School in 1963. Moved to L.A. in 1964 and literally was fortunate to get a career started in music. THEN in 1965 at 19 years of age I got my induction notice. SO, in order to have a choice, I enlisted in the Infantry Division . At the time, it was only one of two openings available. To my surprise, I was not accepted because of an unknown heart problem. I found out decades later that the Division I was to go in were all killed in Viet Nam in 1966. Till this day, I get chills when I think of the young man that took my place. I don't know what God had planed for me, but I hope I haven't let him down. In April, I will be 77.
Thx 4 sharing. I suspect your whole life has been colored by the fact you dodged that bullet.
Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s so much of our culture reflected on the Viet Nam war and the Cold War. I was deeply impacted by the lack of duty people felt towards the war. I also had a deep convection to the Men in those old documentaries fighting the war. After high school I joined the Army as a Paratrooper in the first Gulf War. I joined when most were coming home and was out before any other conflicts happened. The man I trained as a replacement, a few years later was called to Afghanistan. His humvee blew up when an IED exploded leaving him to face 20 reconstructed surgeries as 85% of his body had 3rd degree burns. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about that.
I had 3 brothers serve in Vietnam. One is gone from brain cancer (we believe from AGENT ORANGE), one has been paralyzed living in a wheelchair (no use of his legs) since he came home and the 3rd is okay. My brothers all enlisted. Not happy you have a heart problem, but am pleased you were spared from a senseless war! God Bless!👈
My mother found out she was pregnant with myself and twin brother and my father was spared. He’s 77 also. I’m glad I still have him.
@@madashell7224 seriously heavy
I was surprised to hear that boy talking about his 50/50 chance of being killed in Chicago back then.
Thank you for sharing all your films, Mr. Hoffman! Your content is always incredible!!
Chicago was always violent. During these times it was the mob.
@@Tj11813 yep but let right wingers tell it it is a new thing. And the mob contained Irish Italian and Jewish folks. Wonder why that is discussed so sparingly these days?
They were killing folks. Beating folks. Killing police. But let right wingers tell it all that started in the last 10 years. 😂😂😂😂
Even Cook County jail was such a violent place (not only those jailed)[.] I met some young people who said they’d commit suicide before getting locked up there. I think Chicago has always been a tough place to live-gotta be tough to live there.
Why does it say 3 replies ye there's only 1?
Must be youtube censoring or something
Been happening for a week or two now...
@@burntchickennugget8142 Foul language.
I was born in 58. Some of this I'm too young to recall.
I was about 5 and remember JFK being killed.
I remember parts of the Vietnam War, protests, etc. Mostly kids my ages were worried their older brothers would go to that stupid war.
I was lucky to have 2 good parents and 1 older brother. We were probably somewhat poor but had everything we needed and some of what we wanted. I wouldn't trade my childhood for anyone else's. Still have good friends from those days.
shut up boomer
you grew up in prosperity and safety
as someone born in 2002, i appreciate this compilation.
watched it all the way through and don’t regret one second
Thank you for watching it all the way through and for your comment.
David Hoffman filmmaker
my nephew was born in 2000, makes you more of a baby than him, omg, you such a young baby.
Proud to be a boomer .
Not just "Sex drugs and rock and roll" .
We lived a intellectual , spiritual and philosophical way of life .
Most of us abhorred violence .
Kids have it rough today, so much depression and no way out.
Then you put on a suit and destroyed the free world. Looooozers
Yeah. I feel bad you guys get so much flack from my generation (gen z). A lot of you guys are looked at the same way you guys looked at your parents. I understand some of the critismsim but the boomers pretty much started counterculture so its funny to me how gen z looks down on them as not being progressive.
I lived a great deal of this, and what I was not present for, I saw on the news. It felt like the whole world was on the brink of change toward something better. We had received so much conflicting information, and a sanitized history of WWII, false justifications of the Vietnam War…all of which crumbled under the most basic scrutiny. We felt lied to, when what we wanted was truth. It is hard to explain to anyone who didn’t live those times, but this film is the best approach I have seen. Thank you again David, for being the memory of social striving for change…they were electrifying times in which to live.🖤🇨🇦
Same thing going on now. Absolutely nothing has changed.
@@jimsmith9301 I, too grew up in the 50’s. I’m grateful that the Lord rescued me from a life of drugs and the 60’s lifestyle. It was an existence of dead-ends...it’s truly His mercy and grace that saved me from that generation. 🙏🏻🙌🏻✝️
+Trinjtne...that's so awesome!!You should be so proud of yourself...I know how strong the hold those things,& those people especially,can be. So few of those who grew up then,in my experience at least,ever aspire to change or to grow,it's just a life of dead ends,just like you said.So well put. It's like insanity, especially with the drugs,doing the same thing over & over again,thinking it will change or get better...you should be proud of yourself.God bless & best of luck in sobriety...you give me hope!!! 👍🙂👍
@@randyjohnson7734 Thank you. My hope and prayers for you it that you will look to the only one who is able to completely set you free - the Lord Jesus Christ! He lifted me out of the miry pit; gave me hope. It truly wasn’t something I was able to accomplish on my own. Often I would fall back to what had been my “comfort zone “ but He was there every time to wash me clean and set my feet on solid ground. He can and will do the same for everyone of us who are willing to humble ourselves and call out for His wonderful Salvation. May the Lord bless you. I will be praying for you.
Some like myself...who didn't rebel...and who never tried drugs as I saw what both could eventually lead to...😁
I felt such sadness for the young man signing up for Vietnam. Whether his stats were correct or not, it was his perception that he had just as much chance at survival on the battlefield as he did on the streets of Chicago.
Thank you, David. Your channel, videos, clips & stills mean so much. I was born at the end of baby boomer generation. Your comments & comments from others allow for interesting dialog. These have helped bring back heartwarming memories of my family through the years. Yours is surely a channel worthy of support. Thank you & may the Lord richly bless. 💕
Would have been nice if they left America as a place where their grandchildren could have the same way of life. Very sad
Evolution and devolution…
I was born 1954 & many memories....awesome time to grow up! Thank you❤️
Love these videos.
Always so strange to feel nostalgia for something I've never experienced.
Ikr
Believe me, you didn’t miss much...that lifestyle is not to be envied.. I lived it. Rebellion led to drinking, drugs and ‘free’ sex; but NOTHING is free...it nearly ruined my entire life.
@@CIA.2024-u9b Sadly it is..one can see the even worse fruit of it today - “Do what thou wilt,” is still the evil motto, though the monster is more emboldened. Thank God I was saved at 21 years of age; however, the ramifications of that lifestyle had severely impacted my life. ✝️🙏🏻
@@CIA.2024-u9b It glorifies an evil pagan spirit going back to Aleister Crowley and Helena Blavatsky - both evil occultist.
@@moose2943 Hey man, I can't completely disagree with u.
But don't forget the beauty too. This might be one of those half full things I guess lol.
We are often the biggest obstacle in our own way.
It wasn't always easy or fun, but it's pretty good now. But it didn't just happen, I carved that sum bitch into existence cause why the fuck not.
We will be that nostalgia video to somebody in the future. Not everybody made it into the videos here, be the ones that made it. And lived a way that will be viewed fondly by the future.
👊🤘
Wow! This video captures the essence of what was really happening. They stopped the draft in my 17th year of age, when the VN war was ending. I was deeply aware of the polarization between the hawks and the doves, the conformists and non-conformists, Senior and Youth attitudes, Sexually prudent and promiscuous, clean vs. drug culture, change vs. status quo, etc. it was a time of great upheaval and ideological conflicts. Being from the tail-end of the boomers, not having to be involved in the war, I felt that I was a member of a unique group of individuals now involved in a mandate to restore peace and compromise in the society around us. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called ‘the children of God’” - Jesus of Nazareth. The trick is to not let our trauma turn us into haters.
@David Johnston, Thank you. Amen. Nor can we allow our teachers, preachers, prophets, politicians, talking heads, anyone, to turn us into Haters. So many times in Christ’s teachings and commands we’re warned to:
“Beware; Be vigilant; Watch [out]; Do not be deceived...”
Also, just as Christ taught us:
*Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy.*
*But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you;*
*That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven:*
(Matthew 5:43-45a; kjv)
I can see where my mother got many of her attitudes and values from. She was born in New Zealand in 1955 and although she shared the attitudes around the hippies and breaking of traditions, she actually didnt directly experience much of these political or cultural events being in a small, very isolated little country. It was mostly observed from a distance. She also very much raised me with strong first wave feminist values yet when I reached my mid 20s (in early 2000s) and she saw how independent and autonomous I became, she immediately resented me for it and our relationship fell apart since... im late 30s now and she's bitterly resentful im not married with kids yet, despite me running my own successful business. It was all very confusing and painful for me once, but I've come to realise she's more aligned with the conservative, maintain the status quo camp of the 50s and 60s, than the cool groovy camp I think she pretended / wished to be. I need not be sorry for being a product of her creation, that she then rejected. Not my stuff. Thanks for such a great channel, a lot of looking back helps to understand how to look forward. I actually wonder if most boomers suffered from a similar internal battle with wanting to be the change, but failing to truly break from conservative values. The pressure of others' expectations can be a very heavy weight. We are all the same underneath it all. Feels like the young people in these videos are exactly the same as today. It's shocking yet makes complete sense. Only the technology has changed, humans have not! Gosh this one really got me thinking! 🤯😄
It was a fantastic time to grow up,the care free life style has stuck with me to this day.We all helped change the world.Glad I grew up when I did,no regrets.
Ya, but the world we changed it into certainly isn't doing our children any good.
I was born in late 63 I remember seeing this stuff on television as a child. The 70s were pretty laid back in the 80s things started to slide down hill.
I always saw it the other way around, the 70’s were crazy times and the 80’s were far more chill. I was born January of 65. My oldest brother was 11 years older than me so I saw a lot just through his experience.
Truly, the 80’s changed the world 😕
These are my grandparents, then. One set born in ‘40-‘42 and the other in ‘48. The clip of the average young people saying “If you’re a bum and you’re happy, stay a bum” is just so interesting. The boomer generation is fascinating and God bless em
Beatniks. Every generation has them.
One of the best lines in film:
"Hey Johnny what are you rebelling against?"
"Whatta yu got?"
Born in '52, I remember being in grammar school when the Cuban missile crisis was going on. We watched films on how to duck and cover, and practiced it a few times in school. Then came the late 60's. I loved the music and the clothes, the "hippie look" the love beads. But that's about as far as my "hippieness" went! Oh, and all the posters. How could i forget about the posters?!
1961 here so I missed some of this but I will always be grateful to have been born in time to grow up in the 60's and 70's. It was a really amazing time to be alive. Being so young, I was unaware of politics and the more serious side. I just remember feeling free and like I was witnessing something epic. Looking back, I really was. I was born a bit late for the hippie movement but I embraced the peace and love and do your own thing vibe. I still try to live that way. No judgement just love. Blessings, peace, and love. 💛🍄🌼
I can’t say the counter culture has improved things much. In some ways made things worse. Now as they grow old, they are grumpy, self entitled, and completely alienated from their youth if not more than when they alienated themselves from their own parents.
H'mm, so much for "if you remember the
60ties, you weren't there"
Thanks a million. I was there.
It's coming back. Just realized how
angry I am, and how angry, I should
have been.
Merci
I was there and I remember it. I was 15 and a "runaway". Trying to sleep on a bluff overlooking the Pacific, just South of the Golden Gate bridge. The fog so wet every night and morning. Barely got any sleep because I was always cold. Probably I remember 1967 so vividly, is Because I never did ANY drugs. No cigarettes or alcohol either. I guess it Was the "summer of love" though. Because I got pregnant with my Son before leaving there. OOPS.
I wonder if Gregory made it out of war, or Chicago, alive?
Thank you David Hoffman for the invaluable work you do through your channel. That's a heritage treasure!
David Hoffman... somehow helping me to feel productive while I'm doing absolutely nothing 😉. I think it comes from the thought provocation. 🤔 Ty Sir
This brings back a lot of feelings for me.
I'm sick and tired of the control system and want it to end. I hope this time we will finally get ourselves free.
I was there also but what I can't understand is where we all went?? Most don't seem to be standing up and fighting for the same things that are going on in 2022. Sad to say.
A world perspective not often included on this time period. Another wonderful video David.
In May 1968 my father was beginning a sabbatical year at the University of Essex, in England. I'm not sure why, but he had to visit someone at the Sorbonne (I was 3 at the time). He got caught up in these protests for a few days. As a French Canadian, he spoke French. When he returned to Essex, one of the professors there knew a cabinet minister, so my father ended up briefing the UK government on what was going on in Paris.
The young people of today are no different than the young folks of yesterday. I think they'd be suprised the similarities they share with yesterday''s youth. Well done!
thank you! Very few folks will admit this. A lot of that 'back in my day' crap always comes across as an ego stroke to me.
Hi David,
I have just discovered your channel.
Fascinating and beyond fabulous.
The universe was showing off when you were made.
Australia
So many of us feel as though we were born in the wrong generation.
Brilliant content as always.
That was a great clip being born in 63.i remember my dad explaining alot of this to me. My dad was a conservative, fair school teacher and l could ask him anything, no matter what it was.
Wonderful footage 💚
it was an absolutely amazing surprise to see phil ochs in this!!! he’s one of my favorite musicians and my heart did a little jump when i saw him. thank you for this footage!!!!!!
Interesting collection of clips from back then. Especially seeing the protests going on in Europe and Japan. I felt sorry for the Frenchman who had is car ruined. Funny seeing how the belt buckle on the hip was something they did for a time.
History truly repeats itself, unless something changes. Nothing has changed yet...
People of that time wanted to be free to think. Other people of that time wanted people not to think freely. Has Things really changed that much? People still fighting for their RIGHTS.
Always a critic of my generation though I participated and indulged. The one lady summed it up; many people want to find something bigger than themselves. How ironic then the Boomers were also called the 'Me Generation.' That tension still permeates the air.
The Me Generation was last few years of Boomers. My siblings and I straddle the demarcation line. Even when I was 12 or so I would hear my mother talk about the differences in the 2ends of the children. For the time period she was an older mother. She taught for 11-12 years before having us.
Really Impressive footage:)❤️
This is one of the best channels ever!! Thank You
Good Morning David!
In my personal opinion
I have always felt as if it really didn't matter in
What generation period I was born: I honestly think it's all about Self Worth Self Love and Respecting yourself and others! (Learned taught behavior from your home)
You need to have Love
Happiness Inner Peace
Integrity Character Manners Respect Morals and Values.
At the end of the day as long as your in Peace because you had good intentions and a Heart that is Pure.
You will always see Evil
People with bad intentions that enjoy hurting others 💔.
We are all born with a gift We are all born so gifted. We are all God's children 🙏.. Now.. It's up to us.....
Thanks David I love just watching your videos. I never get enough of seeing them.
You are totally so amazing and so Loved by so many of us. Have a great Thursday and sending all my blessings to you and your family 🙏
Sadly, some things never seem to change. Music then and now help us to endure the shaky reality. I probably have been somewhat rebellious most of my life. * I still find it shocking what happened to us baby boomers.
I was a 15 year old "runaway" in San Francisco in 1967. It has been called The Summer of Love.. ..i did my part... 🤪
@5:50
What Gregory says still holds true today. Sad...but true.
Thanks for the video David. Once again you did not disappoint:)
I really wish I could have been born in the 50s seems like things were so much simpler back then.
No, I was there, it wasn't simple
🥴🤦🤭🤡🙇
You nailed it David!
I'm so happy these gems 💎 were saved from the fire.
Thanks for sharing, anh David.
Ah, this is from Making Sense of the Sixties!
Superb David, thank you👍💯⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
the US has been an interesting experiment, that’s for sure. Prosperity doesn’t buy happiness.
This was so interesting to watch. I was born in '67.
Fast forward 2022, and evil is now good, and good is now evil
Always enjoying your content 👍👍👍
It’s hilarious that kids are dying to do all of this now over pronouns.
16:52 “The best way to seduce a girl was to talk about Trotsky or the Russian revolution”
Some things never change, huh?
I'm glad someone else caught that 👍
It was a surprise seeing the footage about Paris, Japan, etc. In the later 60's our world consisted of Frisco, cutting school, hitchhiking to to hang out at Haight/Ashbury. Too many impressions of those times to express. This is really cool footage. Thank you.
Another fine video, David. Wow, so many things said bring back memories. What I realize is there were genuine radicals but the majority were want-to-be radicals. I think most of us lived 50 years in a 20 year span. It seems odd to realize how mild I was in comparison to so many. I suppose when one honestly looks back ... well hindsight.
After-thought: How about something on the perspective of those that stayed in high school or college or working, and how they (we) viewed what was going on around us?
My mums generation she was born in 1946, same short of stuff happening here in the U.K. but we did have the sense to stay out of Vietnam!
Thanks for posting all this stuff, it is very fascinating.
Thank you David ❤
This is a magnificent collection
Good video thanks for sharing David Hoffman film maker.👍👍🙂
Thanks Mr Hoffman❤
This was a wonderful insight into rebellious 60s USA. Love these videos
Glad I just discovered this channel
Thanks again for these objective yet personal insights. It's so nice to see that this documentary doesn't take sides.
I was born in 1960 so I wasn't a teenager until the 1970s. I am a late boomer. Sure, all that stuff happening was part of the zeitgeist, but my cohorts and I were fairly oblivious to it. I mean, what kid pays that close attention to the news? In 1966 I recall doing the duck and cover drill for tornadoes and just in case the ruskies decided to drop a nuke on our school. Funny, now that talk of WW3 and nuclear armegeddon is being bandied about again, I suspect the kids today are picking up on the agnsty vibrations in the human psycho sphere, just like we did. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It was an amazing time to be alive. ☮️😊
All I could think is the amount of things that have changed and pretty much equal the amount of things that haven't.
There is a lot in this video, 50/50 chance of staying alive in Chicago or Vietnam. Now days Ukraine is probably safer than Chicago's streets, depending on who you ask.
Watching videos like these have made me realize that the older generations were not so different from mine
Great video. My mom will love it.
First of all , that young black kid that was talking about having a 50 /50 chance of living was horrible and i hope he ended up with a great life and maybe still is .Funny Old Ronny Reagan and many public figures of the time that talked about the long hairs ended up thanking them for their contributions in NAM and never realized it lol....If you were born in the 50's or before , you seen all this on tv and in some of your city streets. Thank you for another good one David.
I don’t know why this brought forth so much emotion on me. I suspect it is because the Christo- fascists of our nation seem to be on the cusp of retaking power and this time hold on to it by force.
I was born in 1965, so just missed the boomer generation. It was a time of naïveté, a lost quality in this current over-informed, jaded generation. At least some people can see government propaganda for what it is. I’m surprised the people fell for the medical mandates considering that. Control the press, control the people. That has not changed . Thank you, David, for the important work you are doing.
The "me" generation.
Yawn.
Love this video
Memories of my life
Interesting to see the perspectives globally…well at least in developed countries! I’m curious to see how today’s climate will be viewed decades on.
“The campuses have been turned over to [these lunatics]” hmmmm where have we heard this today?? 🤔🤔
What a beautifully nostalgic piece of time.
Rebellion against God. Lost and hopefully many turned back.
Love this video 😍 my mom was born in 1940 and married my dad who was born in 1926 allot older than her and was in the Navy had me in 1967 so I remember bits and pieces of 1969 living in Hawaii in Navy housing seeing the hippie's on the beach and the Natives as well yes I am a generation X er but cool to see how the young generation of those days were in your documentary 👍👍❤️🌺🌼🌻🏵️☯️☮️💟
I remember kids hitchking with goats & dogs trying to get to California, I' was too young to be a Hippie but Boy we owned the 70s.
Its a touchy subject I know.. Generations of young people damaged the development of their brains doing drugs. Now I'm 67 and can see the needle & the damage done.
Literally every generation since has done the same !
Ahh this took me back. Thank you
Thanks!
Thank you so much Peter.
David
This is amazing, so surreal 🦋
Propaganda used to be so charming and warm
Now it's a constant slap in the face
The Wayback Machine proves the more things change the more they remain the same.
Born in 1959, latecomer to depression era parents (DOB 1916, 1920) my sibs born in 1947 & 1952. Supper was always lively with the news on. Our schools desegregated I was 11 & I graduated in 1977. My folks didn't instill racist crap. They didn't like a " long hair." My mother thought The Beatles needed haircuts & wondered why they couldn't " be nice like those Beach Boys"😂 Re abortion my mother said: this generation thinks they invented abortion. That's been going on since the dawn of time. Every woman knows who to turn to where she lives, and anyone who says not is a GD liar.
Interesting time to be a kid...and then there was the 70's!!!!!
These videos are always so interesting to watch , makes me wonder how ppl in 2122 are going to look at the youth today
Thank you.
I grew up in a small town in the hills, where a lot of hippies flocked to after the party was over in San Francisco. They were my neighbors and their children my friends.
Individually, they were the same as anyone else. But as a lifestyle, I have to say, I didn't much value. I hate to say it but their lives lacked sanitation and restraint.
Filthy 10 year olds existing on rice cakes and smoking weed they got from their parents. It was just a mess. Most just gave up the dream, which I never really understood what the dream was. They discovered soap and decided money wasn't such a bad thing after all.
Then their was the crazies who gifted onto the movement. When the movement died, they moved further out and we avoided them like the plague. They were dangerous and only the really stupid gullible people would gravitate to them, soon to regret it.
I grew up watching the Vietnam war on t v graduated at 17 and joined the army to avoid the draft and get my service over with since then no draft. The younger generation should feel grateful what the boomers did for them. Your welcome
This is such an amazing documentary. It's strange how similar issues we have now at days...
LOVE THIS!
That young, handsome man who said he felt he had the 50-50 chance of coming out alive in Vietnam and Chicago too was the most honest to God truth. Every American of every color should hear that and be shocked and disgusted by that truth. AND - no longer does the government take care of seniors after age 65.
This is great stuff as always
The first thing I noticed about this whole video was the fact that people actually are interacting with other people and have anywhere else to look but down at a phone...
Hopefully, arrogant millennials will watch this.
I often wonder how we survived all this upheaval in the 60s.
It still breaks my heart. We had to make many choices we had no stability to make.
We didn't have an entitled bone in our bodies.
But they benefit from all our hard work.
What arrogant audacity