Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the first known U.S. presidential candidate to be assassinated. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: It's ...

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It's true that Joseph Smith announced a bid for the presidency in January 1844. A mob killed him in June of the same year when he was in custody at an Illinois jail. However … What's False Smith ...

Untold History (Video) Joseph Smith: American Prophet. Posted: January 15, 2025 | Last updated: March 7, 2025. Inspired by the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, Joseph Smith founded ...

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 ...

Adam Petty, of the Church History Department, speaks to the crowd at a commemorative service June 27 outside the Historic ...

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...

Joseph Smith, the Founder and Prophet of Mormonism, ... Smith later said he found them on a hill—known today as Hill Cumorah—near his father’s farm in Manchester, New York.