Joseph Smith said that it was "our privilege to act as an agent and be baptised for the remission of sins for and in behalf of our dead kindred who have not heard the gospel of the fulness of it ...

“Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration” (2005) Mitchell is the screen Smith most current Latter-day Saints know, since he played the founder in a much-screened church-produced biography.

According to their research, Lucian Foster, a Latter-day Saint, moved from New York City to Nauvoo and lived in the Smith mansion house for two months before Joseph Smith was killed on June 27, 1844.

New research provides new evidence that a recently discovered daguerreotype really does depict Mormon founder Joseph Smith. Forensic images: ...

President Dallin H. Oaks speaks at the Joseph Smith Papers Conference on Friday and announced that a new biography is being written about Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...

Joseph Smith’s image proved to be as important as it was malleable over the next 170 years. The fact that there wasn’t a photograph — the only hard evidence of his appearance being ...