Marilyn Sitzman was an American receptionist and a witness to the assassination of United States President John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22,1963.
10 Facts About Marilyn Sitzman
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Marilyn Sitzman was with her boss, Abraham Zapruder, as he made the Zapruder film, the most studied record of the assassination.
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Marilyn Sitzman chose a concrete abutment which extends from a retaining wall that was part of the John Neely Bryan concrete pergola on the grassy knoll north of Elm Street, in Dealey Plaza.
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Marilyn Sitzman offered to join Zapruder as he suffered from vertigo and was apprehensive about standing on the abutment unassisted.
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Marilyn Sitzman went on record about the direction of the shots she heard, stating that they came from the direction of the Texas School Book Depository.
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Marilyn Sitzman rejected the theory that one or more shots came from behind the 5-foot high stockade fence atop the knoll:.
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Between Marilyn Sitzman and the stockade fence was a 3.3-foot high, L-shaped concrete alcove along the path from the stairway up the knoll to the area behind the pergola.
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Marilyn Sitzman recalled hearing a soda bottle breaking as they ran.
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Marilyn Sitzman died of cancer on August 11,1993, at age 53 in Mesquite, Texas.
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Marilyn Sitzman was portrayed by Lynne Rostochil in Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK and by Bitsie Tulloch in Peter Landesman's 2013 film Parkland.