Well, I figured it out on my own. Unfortunately I am kind of burned out on the effort it took to do it. Here is how I got it working for others with this same issue.
First I built a array for each line by using var arrJd=(jsonData[i].employee_email, jsonData[i].manager_email,jsonData[i].employee_title);
And then I add the row to the datatable with addRow(arrJd);
proof that an old dog can learn new tricks