FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Joseph Smith fired a gun at Carthage Jail
This article is a draft. FairMormon editors are currently editing it. We welcome your suggestions on improving the content.
Criticism
A brief explanation of the criticism.
Source(s) of the Criticism
Response
The response should be brief and summary in nature.
Conclusion
A summary of the argument against the criticism.
Further reading
FAIR wiki articles
- Links to related articles in the wiki
FAIR web site
- FairMormon Topical Guide: Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith FairMormon link
- Lance Starr, "Was Joseph Smith a Martyr or a Murderer?," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, May 2003) FAIR link
External links
- Joseph I. Bentley, "Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith," in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., edited by Daniel H. Ludlow, (Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 2:860–862. FAIR link
- Reed Blake, "Martyrdom at Carthage," Ensign (June 1994): 30.off-site
- Stephen R. Gibson, "Was Joseph Smith Really a Martyr?," in One-Minute Answers to Anti-Mormon Questions (Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers, 2005) ISBN 0882907840. off-site
Printed material
- Printed resources whose text is not available online