yeah it does sound too personal.....i mean ur not really mates with him r you??...just start off with jesse martin and then just call him martin..depending on the context your writing you should never use first names.....hope that helps....
yeah he knew..In a movie we watched in class they said he actually took a trip to one of the concentration camps and was said to have commented on how the slave laborouers had too much roofing and that it was ''a waste of important materials''.
hope thats helped.