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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 once.

If you haven't listened to part one yet, now's the time to dial it back.

Go listen to part one so that what we're sharing will make a lot more sense to you, hopefully.

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 Nabu expositor, this apostate newspaper that, um, was declared a nuisance by the city council of navu and that was abated

as the terminology is meaning it was it was destroyed the press was destroyed this sets off the

firestorm that will lead to jose 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, you know, 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. I mean, Elijah Lovejoy was not only lost

his press several times, but was also murdered, and no one was ever convicted for that. So,

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