Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast, hosted by historian Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

where we explore the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

and gain rare historical insights into how a young farm boy was able to establish a new church

and grow it by way of visions, manifestations,

and miracles.

Hi, welcome to part two of our special podcast on the martyrdom of Joseph Smith. I'm joined here by my friend Richard

Leduke. Hello. And we're going to discuss further the events that led to the martyrdom of

the prophet Joseph Smith. We talked in part one. So if you haven't listened to part one yet,

now's the time to dial it back. Go listen to part one so that so what we're sharing will

will make a lot more sense to you hopefully um

but go back and listen to that part this is part two of the special podcast on the martyrdom of

joseph and hiram smith and when we last left left off we were talking about the destruction of the

newspaper the navu expositor this apost apostate newspaper that was declared a nuisance

by the city council of Navu, and that was abated, as the terminology is meaning it was destroyed.

The press was destroyed.

This sets off the firestorm that will lead to Joseph Smith's murder.

There are a lot of aspects of this.

I mean, honestly, you could do an entire college course on what happens next in the next several weeks.

But for our purposes, we're just going to cover some of the major events.

This is a huge outrage.

Now, we talked on the last podcast that, you know, Illinoisans were destroying

presses without any repercussions for a while already.

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