Category: Forgeries
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The “Mormon Will”
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In our publication Howard Hughes and the “Mormon Will” written in May 1976, we demonstrated that in spite of the fact that several prominent handwriting experts endorsed the so-called “Mormon Will,” the internal evidence proved it was a forgery. Two years after we wrote this pamphlet the Salt Lake Tribune…
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The Real Joseph Smith
Getting a clear impression of Joseph Smith’s character has been difficult, due to guarded church records and LDS historians who have often been pressured.
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From a Tea-Chest? (Kinderhook Plates)
The Kinderhook Plates, partially translated by Joseph Smith as containing a history linked to a descendant of Ham, were later revealed through scientific analysis and historical research to be a fraud.
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Joseph Smith and Money-Digging
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1877 the Vermont Historical Gazetteer printed the following information: About 1800, occurred the “Wood scrape,”. . . a strange affair in which the Wood families, then living here, were the leading actors . . . the Woods dug for money in various parts of the town, and were engaged in this for nearly…
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Moonmen and Nephites
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner By revelation from God, Joseph Smith professed knowledge about people apparently inhabiting the moon. Just as there has been no good evidence ever supporting such a claim, archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon peoples has remained practically non-existent despite many dubious claims. At the time Joseph Smith established the…