070 The Fate of the Persecutors of the Prophet Joseph Smith

Church History Matters

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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In 1952 book entitled, The Fate of the Persecutors of the Prophet Joseph Smith, was published by N. B. Lundwall. Within its pages, among other things, Lundwall presented various stories describing how many of those who played significant roles in the persecution of Joseph Smith met with unfortunate ends in unnatural and sometimes gruesome ways, underscoring the idea of divine justice and retribution. Unfortunately, the historical credibility of most of these stories is seriously lacking since they are based on unverifiable hearsay rather than well-documented and corroborated records. These morbid tales are thus the stuff of legend and folklore rather than a robust documentary record. But they do stimulate the question: What do we know about what actually happened to those involved in the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum Smith? Were they ever brought to justice? Did they live long lives? Did any of them meet a tragic mortal end? In this episode of Church History Matters, we investigate the answers to these questions based primarily in the solid historical research of Marvin S. Hill and Dallin H. Oaks. For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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0:00.0	In 1952, a book entitled The Fate of the Persecutors of the Prophet Joseph Smith was published by
0:12.2	N. B. Lundwall.
0:14.0	Within its pages, among other things, Lundwall presented various stories describing how many of those
0:20.3	who played significant roles in the persecution of Joseph Smith met with unfortunate
0:25.4	ends in unnatural and sometimes gruesome ways, underscoring the idea of divine justice and retribution.
0:34.1	Unfortunately, the historical credibility of most of these stories is seriously lacking,
0:39.1	since they are based on unverifiable hearsay rather than well documented and corroborated records.
0:46.0	These morbid tales are thus the stuff of legend and folklore rather than a robust documentary
0:51.4	record.
0:52.7	But they do stir up the question.
0:54.8	What do we actually know about what happened to those involved in the deaths of Joseph and
0:59.2	Hiram Smith?
1:00.6	Were they ever brought to justice?
1:02.7	Did they live long lives?
1:04.7	Did any of them meet a tragic mortal end?
1:08.1	In today's episode of Church History Matters,
1:10.4	we investigate the answers to these questions based primarily in the solid
1:14.8	historical research of Marvin S Hill and Dalin H Oaks. I'm Scott
1:20.4	Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffith's.
1:23.1	And today Casey and I dive into our seventh episode in this series
1:26.6	about the martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith.
1:29.3	Now let's get into it. post-mortem today. Yeah, about the fate of the persecutors of the Prophet Joseph Smith, which is an amazing title. Yes. And I really hope that's the title of this episode though. I know you're the one that has final say when it comes to stuff like that. So we're going to do it. That's the name of this episode. It's so grabby like it just pulls you right in and you want to be like,oh I want to hear this story so yeah and it's
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