Ep 144 – If You Stir I’ll Shoot; God Damn You!

Naked Mormonism Podcast

Bryce Blankenagel

Ldschurch, Christianity, Latterdaysaints, Religion, Ldschurchhistory, Mormons, Religion & Spirituality, Mormonhistory, Bookofmormon, Mormonism, Josephsmith, Mormon

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, at the behest of Joseph Smith, Joseph H. Jackson embarks on a mercenary trip to Missouri in hopes of breaking Porter Rockwell out of jail and finishing off Ex-Governor Lilburn Boggs. His true intent? Collude with Jackson County Sheriff Reynolds to arrest Joseph Smith. He isn’t successful, but gathers some helpful intel to bring back to the prophet to gain his trust. Joseph Smith heads to Dixon, Illinois to preach but winds up arrested by Sheriffs Reynolds and Wilson; mobs form everywhere they go. The Danites are called out to canvass Illinois to break Jo out of custody and return him to the Kingdom on the Mississippi, and Jo has a pistol smuggled to him. Content warning for this episode, there’s some of strong language.

Links:

Second Arrest of Joseph Smith 1843
http://www.truthandgrace.com/1843arrest2.htm

Joseph H. Jackson 1844 expose
http://www.olivercowdery.com/smithhome/1840s/1844Jack.htm

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I am Ryan McKnight.
0:02.2	I'm Kara Santa Maria.
0:03.7	I am Christopher Smith.
0:05.2	Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.
0:06.7	This is Naked Mormonism.
0:09.7	The Serial Mormon History Podcast. Joseph Smith was still on the run from Missouri.
0:24.9	He'd been released on the technicality on his rid of habeas corpus, but Missouri was still trying
0:29.9	to get him within state boundaries to prosecute him for his crimes.
0:34.4	Those crimes were accessory before the fact to attempted murder of a public official,
0:39.2	that's a little Byrne W. Boggs, and of course all the old Missouri Mormon war charges from 1838.
0:44.6	That's arson, robbery, and high treason. Joe was technically a fugitive from Missouri after his
0:51.2	escape from custody in the spring of 1839, and if he stepped foot in
0:54.5	the state, whether of his own volition or in the custody of constables or bounty hunters,
0:59.8	he'd be arraigned in court on all those old charges and then sent to the gallows where he
1:03.6	belonged.
1:05.0	To complicate matters, Joe's underground enforcer, or in pistol pack and Porter Rockwell,
1:10.0	misnamed as the destroying Angel of Mormonism.
1:12.1	He was currently languishing in various jails throughout Missouri.
1:15.9	But Joe had a new friend up here on the scene, Joseph H. Jackson, who promised that he'd break
1:20.5	port out of jail and finished the botched Lilburn Boggs job while he was there.
1:25.5	So Joe had acquired a horse and some provisions for Jackson to make the
1:28.7	trip to Missouri from Navu, and he had also promised Jackson that he'd pay him a handsome
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