Marilyn Sitzman (December 14, 1939 – August 11, 1993) was an American receptionist and a witness to the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Zapruder's clothing company was located in the Dal-Tex Building at 501 Elm Street, one block from Dealey Plaza through which the presidential motorcade would be passing on November 22.
The fatal head shot struck President Kennedy as his limousine passed almost directly in front of their position, 65 feet (20 m) from the center of Elm Street.
"[7] Some assassination researchers, studying vague shapes in a photograph taken by Mary Moorman from across the street just after the fatal head shot, saw the so-called "badge man" aiming a rifle from this area.
[10] In an interview with researcher Josiah Thompson conducted on November 29, 1966, rediscovered in 1985,[11][failed verification][citation needed] Sitzman gave eyewitness testimony to who was in a 3.3-foot (1 m) high, L-shaped concrete alcove about nine yards (8.2 m) to her right along the path from the stairway up the knoll to the area behind the pergola: a young black couple was sitting on a bench, eating lunch and drinking sodas.