Sean Murphy's research deserves more

[Paul Rigby]

I've followed this thread on the Education Forum and was initially highly skeptical, but now I'm more on the fence. We should be able to figure out who "prayer man" is by deduction. My only doubt comes from the possibility that "prayer man" may be a woman (middle-aged or older) with short hair. We don't have photos of most of the TSBD employees to compare it to.

Here's a list I made up years ago of all the employees, based on FBI interviews done in 1964. Name/Occupation/location at time of assassination:

Holt, Gloria Jeannie Clerk in billing dept, TSBD since July 1963 South side of Elm with Jacob, Mrs Nelson (Sharon Simmons)

Jacob, Stella Billing dept typist, TSBD since July 1963 South side of Elm (with Sharon Simmons [Mrs Nelson], Jeanne Holt)

Nelson, Sharon Clerk, TSBD On Elm St halfway between TU and TSBD, with Holt and Jacob

Interesting to note that all three women stated to the FBI that they had stood, as a group, on the south side of Elm St, approximately fifty yards along its length toward the underpass, during the shooting - and that none are to be seen on the second public version of the Zapruder fake:

Gloria Jeanne Holt, statement to FBI's SAs Eugene P. Petrakis & A. Raymond Switzer, 18 March 1964:

"I left the Depository building and walked down toward the Stemmons expressway underpass west of the building approximately fifty yards and took up a position on the curb on the south side of Elm Street to await the presidential procession. I was accompanied by Sharon Simmons, now Mrs Nelson, and Stella Jacob…I was still standing on the curb at the time the president was shot." 22H652

Stella Mae Jacob, statement to the FBI's SAs Eugene P. Petrakis & A. Raymond Switzer, 18 March 1964:

"I left the Depository building and walked down toward the Stemmons expressway underpass west of the building approximately fifty yards and took up a position on the curb on the south side of Elm Street...I was accompanied by Sharon Simmons, now Mrs Nelson, and Jeanne Holt…I was still standing on the curb at the time President John F. Kennedy was shot," 22H655.

Sharon Nelson (nee Simmons), statement to the FBI's SA E.J. Robertson, 18 March 1964:

"At the time President Kennedy was shot I was standing on the sidewalk on Elm Street midway between the Texas School Book Depository Building and the underpass on Elm Street. I was with Jeannie Holt…and Stella Jacob…," 22H665.

The presence of the three south Elmers, in a group, in the immediate aftermath of the assassination, was confirmed by Deputy Sheriff C.L. "Lummie" Lewis:

"I ran around the corner and came across Houston Street to Elm Street to the Park. I saw some people there. I began to talk to them getting names and information. I talked to the following named people: 1) Simmons, 2) Holt, 3) Jacobs. See statements taken from all three named people," 19H526-7

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They thus join Mrs. Hester in the honour of being removed from the south kerb of Elm by the Z fake.