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Sarah Juanita Dean Stanton

9 Jun 1922 – 21 Aug 1992

Birth9 Jun 1922
Death21 Aug 1992
CemeterySouthland Memorial Park
Grand Prairie , Dallas County , Texas , USA
Added byLinda on 10 Jul 2020
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152413470

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Sarah Stanton* had worked for at least 10 years as a clerk - one document describes her as a "pricer"- for the Texas School Book Depository on the 2nd floor when she became an eyewitness to the assassination of President Kennedy. She was 41 years old at the time. (Dallas City Directory listings show her working at the Depository at least as early as 1953). At about 12:20pm she left the 2nd floor lunchroom and went to the entryway steps to find a spot from which to view the Presidential motorcade. She stood on the east side of the front steps of the Depository, either near the top step or on the landing based upon the FBI Statements of several other employees on the steps. Her own FBI Statements, are rather unclear about precisely where she was standing, stating merely that she was "on the steps". But according to her March '64 FBI Statement, she was with Bill Shelley , Pauline Sanders , Billy Lovelady and Otis Williams . Shelley and Sanders were on the middle to east side of the landing (on the rt. side as one faces the Depository) by the glass doors, and Lovelady was on the 3rd step down from the landing (out of 7, including the landing)just on the west side of the railing. And in his Mar. '64 FBI Statement Williams said he was "on the 1st step down" from the landing, just on the east side of the the central railing. Stanton's coworker, Clerk Accountant, Pauline Sanders, who was on the east end of the landing, said that Sarah was "next to" her - it's unclear if that meant on the landing, or on the 1st step down in front of her. She heard 3 shots and was unsure where they were coming from. Since her view down Elm from the steps was blocked, she stated she went in the building "immediately", took the (front)elevator up to the 2nd floor offices and then went to the Southwestern Publishers (corner) office from where she tried to get a good view out the windows to see what was happening. She then returned to her office where she remained until 2:20pm when the employees were given permission to go home. *I searched the available Grand Prairie HS yearbooks online for a HS photo of her, to no avail. I finally contacted the GP Public Library who told me they were not published prior to 1945 (she should've graduated in 1940). Some of her co-workers, including, Buell Wesley Frazier, described her as a "short, heavy-set lady". Indeed, a photo of her has since been obtained from her granddaughter (see profile photo).

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