Sean Murphy's research deserves more

[Bob Prudhomme]

I suppose I am the only person to believe that the person identified as "PrayerMan" is quite possibly a female, somewhat stocky with short hair, and maybe middle aged, and holding their arms that way to hold a purse by the strap. Yes, I suppose I'm the only one.
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No you're not, I suggested something like that further upstream in the thread.

Tracy, I recently read some testimony by Billy N Lovelady and Buell W Frazier regarding the occupants in the TSBD doorway area and on the steps at 12:30pm on 11/22/63. That testimony, although somewhat ambiguous, indicates to me that the person id'd as PrayerMan, is actually a female named Sarah Stanton. Although the testimony was ambiguous, I was also unable to disqualify that indication. JMO.
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Pauline Saunders: (3-19-64 statement to the FBI, 22H672) "At approximately 12:20 PM on November 22, 1963, I left the lunchroom on the second floor of the building and went out the front entrance to await the arrival of the presidential motorcade which I knew was due to pass the Depository about 12:30 PM. I took up a position at the top of the front steps of the Depository building facing Elm Street. To the best of my recollection, I was standing on the top step at the east end of the entrance. I recall that while standing there I noticed Mrs. Sarah Stanton standing next to me, but I am unsure as to the others."

If Pauline Sanders was standing at the east end of the entrance and Sarah Stanton was standing next to her, that would also place Stanton at the east end of the entrance or, at the very least, in the middle of the entrance. Prayer Man was plainly backed into the corner at the west end of the entrance.