Bill McKeever explains the issues and events, the rumors and facts, that led to the death of Joseph Smith on June 27, 1844.
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Old Man: I agree with you. I also like how these conversations are being carried out with respect yet frank and to the point. I will get back to you on your post, but I just got done doing a grave yard shift and I’m done for now. I have some long responses to get back to, but I’ll do my best. Thanks for the cordial discussion.
Still waiting for that reply. Some further information about Jo’s motives for shooting people. Here is the letter he wrote from Carthage to his wife Emma on the day of his murder,
Notice the last paragraph. (not the P.S.) As for “resigned to my lot”, that is being put on trial. Jo actually thought that things had calmed down and that the troops would defend him. The penalty for treason was death, and Smith specifically said he had no fear of that.
Allen J. Stout would write,
In her book “The Rocky Mountain Saints”, Fanny Stenhouse wrote about this incident, (Footnote, pg. 164) and though she did not name him, it is apparent that she is speaking of Jonathan Dunham. Though there was an attempted forgery of that order by Jo to Dunham by Mark Hoffman, that doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen. Smith actually did a second P.S. To Emma which read,
And then this,
Who did he write those “few lines” to? We simply do not know. It easily could have been Jonathan Dunham.