Episode 5: Mourning Joseph and Hyrum
Road to Carthage: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast
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The Importance of Joseph Smith's Death
The years before his death, Joseph Smith had given increasing responsibility to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Not even the Twelve seemed to have fully understood what that meant or what would occur at the time of Joseph Smith's death. When Brigham Young learns aboutJoseph Smith's death, he recalls that his head felt like it was going to crack.
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