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Meet the directors of documentary "Who killed joseph smith?" Justin Griffin and Steve Sorensen

“Who Killed Joseph Smith?” Interview w/ Justin Griffin & Steve Sorensen

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Exclusive interview with Justin Griffin (Director & Producer) and Steve Sorensen (Film Maker). We discuss their full-featured documentary film “Who Killed Joseph Smith?” Explore the project, multiple theories, research, science, forensics, ballistics, chronologies, legal proceedings, historical accounts, changes in church histories, insights from leading experts and more. In this interview, we attempt to better understand one of the most significant murders in American history: The assassination of Joseph & Hyrum Smith on June 27, 1844 at Carthage Jail.

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Interview with Rob Fotheringham

Rob Fotheringham Interview

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Rob Fotheringham is an independent researcher, YouTube channel operator & former LDS church employee of 9 years on the LDS gospel library, welfare projects, perpetual education fund and more. Rob is best known for his series of documentary videos that outline LDS subjects of interest, including polygamy, rejecting the fulness of the gospel, ethics of the perpetual education fund, Elijah’s alleged visit to the Kirtland temple, the pioneer handcart migration disasters and more.

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interview with Whitney Horning Joseph Smith Revealed a Faithful telling

Interview with Whitney Horning, Author of “Joseph Smith Revealed: A Faithful Telling”

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Whitney Horning’s book “Joseph Smith Revealed: A Faithful Telling” explores in great detail the truth behind Joseph Smith’s energetic denunciation of polygamy amid the growing popularity of Nauvoo’s troublesome “new order of things.” In this interview, we discuss Whitney’s journey, her life experiences, stories, faith, persecutions, triumphs, insights and findings in regards to her book projects, and address from the audience several of their top questions in regards to the question: Did Joseph Smith teach or practice polygamy?

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Fanny Alger

Fanny Alger – Timeline of Events

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For those who want to know the Fanny Alger story, it’s imperative they become familiar with the whole collection of known sources. What’s been said? Who said it? When did they say it? Who did they hear it from? Those types of questions can help separate the lifetime absorption of various historian opinion and interpretation from the raw facts themselves.

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Origins of LDS Polygamy- Samuel Smith & Orson Hyde's Missionary Journals Among the Cochranites

Origins of LDS Polygamy: Samuel Smith & Orson Hyde’s Missionary Journals Among the Cochranites

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What are the real origins of LDS polygamy? Where did it start? Who was involved? Where did these teachings of spiritual wives and plural wives come from? One of the earliest contemporary first hand records we have are the priceless journals of Samuel Smith and Orson Hyde, two early Mormon missionaries who detailed extensively their findings among the Cochranite people of 1832 New England. Did the Cochranites influence early LDS polygamy? Why does the LDS church own these journals, yet speak nothing of them and their connections to early origins of polygamy?

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