I've always wanted to create a documentary and now I finally have the chance. My U.S. History teacher decided to have us put together a documentary on just about anything we want as long as it relates to history for an assignment.
Now that I have my video camera and will be getting a video editing system for Christmas, I'm almost set. I even have the story I'm going to do and some of the research due to Ancestry.com.
My mom told me that my great great grandpa Jefferson Davis Martin (named aptly after the president of the Confederacy) had a farm in Oklahoma where he would hide out criminals like Pretty Boy Floyd and it's even said Bonnie and Clyde stayed a bit on the farm. I'm going to get a lot of the story from my great uncle Dan who loves researching this family stuff but if anyone knows where I can find old arrest records from the 1920s or 30s online (Grandpa Martin was imprisoned for two years for hiding out Pretty Boy Floyd) that would be great. I'm trying to collect as many sources as I can.
God, who would have thought my great great grandpa could have housed Bonnie and Clyde? Haha and it's also a rumor in the family that his twin, Jemimiah Martin, killed her husband. I love family. Haha!
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