Did Joseph Smith Own Slaves?

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Bill Reel

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🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Tonight on The Mormon Newscast, our lead story comes out of Atlanta where Morehouse College has unveiled a portrait of Joseph Smith Jr. inside its Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel — placing the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the school’s International Hall of Honor alongside figures like Abraham… Read More »Did Joseph Smith Own Slaves?

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody. Good night. It is the newscast here on Monday night. It's March 2nd,
0:07.4	2026. I'm joined by Rebecca Biblioteca. Radio Free Mormon. How are the two of you this evening?
0:12.9	Great. Thank you. Fantastic. A little rainy. It's raining really hard right here, but we're hanging in there.
0:19.5	We had almost a record day in Cedar City the other day.
0:22.2	It was 69 degrees.
0:23.3	The record was 70, and now it's back to being really cold out.
0:26.9	I'm not liking it, but tis life.
0:29.8	All right.
0:30.3	So let's jump into it.
0:31.7	There's the thumbnail for tonight.
0:33.2	Joseph Smith owned slaves, question mark.
0:36.5	These are the stories for tonight. More media coverage for Joseph Smith painting slaves, question mark. These are the stories for tonight.
0:38.2	More media coverage for Joseph Smith painting at Morehouse.
0:42.9	That'll be handled by Rebecca Biblioteca.
0:45.6	We've got Big Boo by BYU.
0:47.4	That's also Rebecca, although I think we've got the stories maybe a little switched up here.
0:51.4	Update on gang violence at LDS Ward.
0:53.9	That's Radio Free Mormon.
0:55.5	We've got the LDS Church addresses the USA-Iran conflict. I guess I should say USA and Israel and
1:02.5	Iran, although now you're starting to see some other countries jump in, at least on the
1:06.3	periphery. Next up, update on Kissing Mormon Layton School employee.
1:11.4	That'll also be Radio Free Mormon.
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