Paxton subsequently moved to Los Angeles, where he worked in props and art departments after being rejected by film schools in Southern California, he switched his ambitions from directing to acting. There, they met fellow Texas native Tom Huckabee, with whom they made Super 8 short films for which they built their own sets. He graduated from Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth in 1973, after which he studied at Richmond College in London, alongside his old high school friend Danny Martin. He later co-produced the film Parkland about the assassination.
Photographs of Paxton being lifted above the crowd are on display at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on the morning of his assassination on November 22, 1963. At the age of eight, he was in the crowd when President John F.
Paxton was distantly related to actress Sara Paxton and was the great-nephew of Mary Paxton Keeley, a prominent journalist and close friend of Bess Truman. His great-great-grandfather was Elisha Franklin Paxton (1828–1863), a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War who was killed commanding the Stonewall Brigade at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Paxton was of Austrian, Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh descent. His father was a businessman, lumber wholesaler, museum executive, and (during his son's career) an occasional actor, notably appearing in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films as Bernard Houseman and alongside Paxton in A Simple Plan (1998). His mother was a Roman Catholic who raised him and his siblings in her faith. William Paxton was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 17, 1955, the son of Mary Lou (née Gray) and John Lane Paxton (1920–2011). Paxton being raised above the crowd as a child as JFK emerges from the Hotel Texas before his assassination in November 1963
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