093 What Was Brigham Young's Role in the Mountain Meadows Massacre?

Church History Matters

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The unjustified slaughter of around 120 men, women, and children emigrants in Mountain Meadows Utah on September 11, 1857, was an unspeakable tragedy. For Latter-day Saints then and now, one of the many painful details about this event is that it was instigated under the direction of local LDS leaders in Iron County who served simultaneously as ecclesiastical, civil, and military leaders. On this episode of Church History Matters, we continue our discussion about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, with a focus on the aftermath of the atrocity. Specifically, we probe what we know of Brigham Young’s reaction to the massacre and where the erroneous idea came from that he ordered the attack. We walk through what we know about who was brought to justice for the massacre and what the eventual fate was of those who instigated and participated in this heinous tragedy. 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	The unjustified slaughter of around 120 men, women, and children, immigrants in Mountain Meadows, Utah on September 11, 1857, was an unspeakable tragedy.
0:19.0	For Latter-day Saints then and now, one of the many painful details
0:23.3	about this event is that it was instigated under the direction of local LBS leaders in Iron
0:28.8	County who served simultaneously as ecclesiastical, civil, and military leaders. Today on Church
0:35.9	History Matters, we continue our discussion about the
0:38.8	Mountain Meadows Massacre with a focus on the aftermath of the atrocity. Specifically,
0:44.3	we probe what we know of Brigham Young's reaction to the massacre and where the erroneous idea
0:49.0	came from that he ordered the attack. And we walked through what we know about who was brought
0:53.7	to justice for the massacre, why it
0:55.8	took so long to do so, and what the eventual fate was of those who instigated and participated
1:01.3	in this heinous tragedy.
1:03.2	I'm Scott Woodward, and my co-host is Casey Griffiths.
1:06.5	And today Casey and I dive into our seventh episode in this series on peace and violence in Latter-day Saint history.
1:12.8	Now let's get into it.
1:16.2	Hello, Scott. Hello, Casey.
1:18.9	Here we are once again. We're back at it. Back at it. Talking about peace and violence
1:24.5	among 19th century Latter-day Saints. Probably our last series for the year, would you say?
1:29.9	This is our last series.
1:30.9	We're going to wrap it up on Christmas Eve.
1:33.5	And then we have a big surprise for 2025, Casey.
1:38.1	We're not doing our typical series as, are we?
1:41.2	We're going to do something a little different.
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