Assassination
Who was seen fleeing shortly after the shot was fired?
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tiptoes Thomas Weldon Atherston 2012 Empire State Building shooting Waihi miners' strike Mark Lane (author)
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According to Peter Dinklage, the original cut of the film was "gorgeous", but the director was fired shortly after turning it in, and the people who fired him recut the film into a "rom-com with dwarves". 
However, Earle then began a relationship with the son Frederick despite protests from Atherston. While Frederick was visiting Earle to view a painting she had recently finished, they heard gunshots from next door. Entering the apartment, which connected to Earle's though a garden, the two investigated the darkened apartment to find the body of a man who had been violently shot to death. After calling for the police, it was discovered to be the body of Atherston. Although an investigation found several witnesses who claimed to have seen a man jumping over a back wall fleeing the scene, police believed Atherston had been spying on the two when he encountered a burglar who shot him and fled the scene. However, the murder remains unsolved. 
At a news conference shortly after the shootings, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that it appeared that police might have accidentally shot civilians during the incident. The day following the shooting, Kelly confirmed that all of the bystanders had been wounded as a result of police gunfire. The New York Police Department released a brief surveillance video of the shootout between Johnson and the police. The footage shows Johnson wearing a suit, holding a briefcase, and raising his handgun at the officers, who then responded with gunfire. Johnson is shown being struck by the police's bullets, dropping his briefcase, and falling to the ground on his back. People sitting on a bench and walking nearby are shown immediately fleeing the scene. A second video was caught by an Australian tourist from street level, where officers are seen with weapons pointed at Johnson lying on his back, just after he was shot. The camera then pans to the nearby streets where bystanders were struck, and to pedestrians trying to hide behind buildings during the ensuing chaos. 
The violence gradually escalated, with union workers on one side and non-union workers and police on the other. The greatest level of violence came on 12 November, known as "Black Tuesday". A group of armed non-union workers and police attacked the union hall, which was defended by a small group of union workers (also armed). Thomas Johnston, a non-union worker who had come to the mines after his market garden in Auckland was bankrupted, was shot in the knee, and a police constable was shot in the stomach. The shots are believed to have been fired by Fred Evans, a radical unionist. Evans himself was beaten to the ground by the police, and later died of his injuries. Soon afterwards, the strikers broke ranks, with many fleeing Waihi altogether. 
Lane published an indictment of the Warren Commission, entitled "Rush to Judgment", using these interviews as well as evidence from the 26 volumes of the Commission's report. Despite the fact that the majority of Mark Lane's material for his book came from the Warren Report itself, as well as from interviews with those who were at the scene, sixteen publishers canceled contracts before "Rush to Judgment" was published." The book became a number one best seller and spent 29 weeks on the "New York Times" best-seller list. It remains one of the most famous books in JFK conspiracy literature. It was adapted into a documentary film in 1966. Lane questions the Warren Commission conclusion that three shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository and focuses on the witnesses who had recounted seeing or hearing shots coming from the grassy knoll. Lane questions whether Oswald was guilty of the murder of policeman J.D. Tippit shortly after the Kennedy murder, but does not mention witnesses Barbara and Virginia Davis (who claimed to have seen Oswald crossing their lawn and emptying his pistol immediately after the shooting) or witnesses Ted Callaway and Sam Guinyard (who claimed to have seen Oswald carrying a gun and fleeing on foot after the shooting). Lane also states that none of the Warren Commission firearm experts were able to duplicate Oswald's shooting feat. According to former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin in his 1999 book "The Sword and the Shield", the KGB helped finance Lane's research on "Rush to Judgement" without the author's knowledge. The Soviet agency allegedly use an intermediarya friend of Lane who was a KGB contactto provide Lane with $2000 for research and travel in 1964. Mark Lane called the allegation "an outright lie" and wrote, "Neither the KGB nor any person or organization associated with it ever made any contribution to my work."