An Integral Equation for the Square of a Laguerre Polynomial

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The following integral equation was presented back in the late 30's by Watson and Szego (Journal of the London Mathematical Society) but I cannot access the journal. Any ideas on a proof ?

$$e^{-x} x^{\alpha } L_n^{\alpha }(x){}^2=\int_0^{\infty } J_{2 \alpha }\left(2 \sqrt{x y}\right) e^{-y} y^{\alpha } L_n^{\alpha }(y){}^2 \, dy$$

where $L_n^{\alpha }(x)$ is the generalized Laguerre polynomial and $J_{2 \alpha }(z)$ is the Bessel function of the first kind.