Personal Life

December 1833

Doctor Philastus Hurlbut returned to Kirtland from a fact-finding mission (an attempt to prove that the Book of Mormon was a work of fiction and that Joseph Smith was not an honest man), began to lecture on his findings, and threatened the life of Joseph Smith.

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