Category: In the News
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Benson Takes Over
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The day Mormon historians and other liberal members of the Mormon church have feared for many years has finally arrived. With the death of Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra Taft Benson has become the thirteenth President of the Mormon church. Through the years Mr. Benson has been so dogmatic in his…
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Michael Didn’t Do It
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner On June 25, 1980 the Salt Lake Tribune reported: A man who caused about $10,000 damage with his truck on Temple Square last Thursday was arraigned in 5th Circuit Court Tuesday Michael George Marquart, 29, 642 Spring Hill Dr., North Salt Lake, . . . was arrested inside the temple grounds after…
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Alex Joseph
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner On November 11, 1978, the Salt Lake Tribune, printed a very sensational story relating to Joseph Smith’s Pearl of Great Price: Claiming the “biggest breakthrough since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone,” Utah polygamist Alex Joseph said Friday he has worked out a mathematical formula proving a link between the…
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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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Mormons and the Watergate Scandal
Justice Department Warns Church About Illegal Taping By Jerald and Sandra Tanner During 1973, as the details of the Watergate cover-up began to unfold, we were struck with the many parallels to Mormon history. Since that time we have found more parallels. Even more important, however, has been the discovery that Mormons were involved with…
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Repudiates Book of Mormon
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner After we found serious problems with the Utah Mormon Church, we joined a group known as the Church of Christ—sometimes called the “Lukites.” This is a small group which is not to be confused with the large Church of Christ nor the Church of Christ—Temple Lot. Although this group rejected…
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A Real Dialogue
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the Spring of 1966 a group of Mormons published the first issue of a publication entitled, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. The editors of this journal claimed that they would present both sides of an issue, but we were rather skeptical and felt the they might eventually be…
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A Testing Time?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The following statement appeared in an article in Time Magazine: Outwardly secure and successful, the unique religion created by Joseph Smith and carried to Utah by Brigham Young is none the less at a testing time. Much as in the churches of mainstream Christianity, Mormonism is being prodded out of…
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The Case Against Mormonism
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Sometime ago we announced that we were working on a book which we felt would be one of the most revealing works ever written on the subject of Mormonism. Because of a lack of money and time we have not been able to do much on this work. We now…
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Important Letter (LaMar Petersen)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner, and LaMar Petersen On November 9, 1966, LaMar Petersen wrote a letter to the Manuscript Editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. About half of this letter was printed in volume 1, number 4, page 9. We feel that this letter is rather important, and therefore we are publishing…