Road to Carthage: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast

Episode 4: The Martyrdom

Jun 16, 2023

32:33

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

Joseph Smith and Hiram Smith on the Charge of Treason

4min

The Importance of Humility in History

3min

The Conflicting Information in Contemporaries on the Mob's Attack of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage Jail

2min

Willard Richards' Journal and the Carthage Jail

2min

The Act in the Apology

3min

Joseph Smith's Letter to Emma

4min

A Poor Wafering Man of Grief

2min

The Singing of a Stranger

4min

10.

Joseph and Hiram's Self-Defense in Carthage

1min

11.

The Atrocity of Joseph Smith

4min

This episode describes the legal proceedings in Carthage, Illinois, on June 25, 1844, and the mob’s attack on Carthage Jail and murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith two days later. Guests: David Grua, Richard E. Turley Jr., Alex Smith, Brett Dowdle, Elizabeth Kuehn