Did a kid just dumb luck his way into two historically significant events on the same reel of film? Walker shooting and LHO fight in New Orleans.

The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas has this to say about the John T Martin 8mm movie.

https://www.jfk.org/collections-archive/john-t-martin-film/#:~:text=8mm%20home%20movie%20filmed%20in,the%20FBI%20office%20in%20St.

Quote:

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8mm home movie filmed in Dallas and New Orleans in 1963 by student John Martin. Martin traveled to Dallas in August 1963 and visited Major General Edwin Walker. Walker had recently survived an assassination attempt after a shot was fired through his window in April 1963. Walker was not injured and the assailant was never caught. Eight months later, the widow of accused Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald told investigators her late husband admitted firing that shot.The first part of Martin's film shows scenes of the outside of Walker's house, including the broken window through which the bullet had been fired. After visiting Dallas, Martin traveled to New Orleans and filmed some local landmarks. On August 9, while walking on Canal Street, he witnessed an altercation among several men, one of whom was handing out pro-Castro "Hands Off Cuba" leaflets. Martin filmed a few seconds of police officers taking the men to squad cars, followed by footage of torn leaflets on the sidewalk.Not long after the Kennedy assassination when news accounts of Oswald's background became known, Martin realized one of the men he filmed might have been Lee Harvey Oswald. Martin called the FBI office in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he lived, and agents borrowed his original film in late December 1963. The FBI returned the film to Martin on January 28, 1964.

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And this is a short video that discusses some ideas around the WTF nature of this movie. The Sixth Floor Museum seems to think its a legit movie.

Def WTF

Let me tell you the story of Wilmer McLean. And maybe Robert Lincoln.