His father, Jared Martin,[4] was an actor, photographer and past creative director of the Big Picture Alliance.
His maternal grandfather is the attorney Haliburton Fales II,[7] former President of The Morgan Library[8] in New York.
Together they covered earthquakes in Pakistan,[15] the tsunami in Sri Lanka, interviewed First Lady Laura Bush, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie,[16] and the American hostage Thomas Hamill.
"[18] Martin covering the event for NBC News bought a camera from a tourist on the street and recorded the collapse of the south tower while standing near its base .
He was thrown by the blast, briefly losing consciousness and then made it uptown to the Today Show studios where he appeared with Tom Brokaw, Matt Lauer and Katie Couric.
Film director Oliver Stone licensed a snippet of that footage for his 2006 movie, World Trade Center.
Martin published a short story called Abandoned Car for the on-line publication Mr. Beller's Neighborhood in August of 2021.