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    Assassination, The Murders of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith
    Assassination, The Murders of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith
    Assassination, The Murders of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith
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    Assassination, The Murders of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith

    By Ray Speckman

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    The historically correct story of three men who planned the assassination of the Mormon Prophet and his brother, Joseph Smith, On a hot, humid night three men, Illinois Governor Thomas Ford and newspaper editors Thomas Sharp and Thomas Gregg met in a vacant Stone House on the banks of the Mississippi River in Warsaw, Illinois. This is a story of how the killing of the Smith brothers was planned and the circumstances behind the murders of the leaders of the Mormon Church as they were incarcerated in the Hancock County, Illinois jail at Carthage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRay Speckman
    Release dateJul 2, 2018
    ISBN9780463509456
    Assassination, The Murders of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith
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    Ray Speckman

    Ray Speckman has spent the largest part of his entire life traveling the roads less traveled, smelling each rose (and yes an occasional dandelion) he passes.He admits to being nosey and his brain is like a sponge always wanting more information.He is a widower. He has two children.Ray lived at Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks for many years where he was involved in the newspaper and radio business, taught at Columbia College at the lake, owned a restaurant and was involved in many philantrophic and community activities.Ray also produced and hosted a decade long television program, Ozark Daze on the Columbia, Missouri NBC affilliate, KOMU-TV. Ray also produced historically based documentaries for regional and national distribution.Today he resides near the Lake with a widow, Joyce Mitchell who he smiles and refers to as "my sugar momma." He also says they live "comfortably in sin as mature grandparents."Together they have a boutique shop that also sells antiques and wines in Versailles, Missouri.Ray and Joyce travel extensively and together enjoy the backroads and new people, places and opportunities together.Ray is compiling, updating and discovering new adventures for his continuing work of Ebooks that has published now on Amazon/Kindle and Smashwords.He also has published Ebooks "Stranger in the Mirror" detailing the strength of his wife Marti as she struggled with cancer.

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      Assassination, The Murders of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith - Ray Speckman

      ASSASSINATION!!!

      The Murders of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith

      "The Conspiracy at Carthage"

      Ray Speckman

      Copyright © 2018 Ray Speckman

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      "The [Mormon] story is remarkably well gotten up, and may unhappily make the foundation of a religion which may roll back upon the world the barbarism of eighteen centuries passed away. While there are fools and knaves there is no telling what may be accomplished by such a religion."

      History of Illinois, page 256 by former Governor Thomas Ford, S. C. Griggs & Co, New York, 1854.

      Joseph and Hyrum Smith

      Contents

      Introduction

      Author’s Acknowledgement

      Preface

      Chapter One: The Mormons

      Chapter Two: The Three Toms

      Chapter Three: A Conspiracy Emerges

      Chapter Four: The Governor’s Confession

      Chapter Five: Sharp Grows Impatient

      Chapter Six: Governor Ford’s Shortcomings

      Chapter Seven: Gregg’s Lament

      Chapter Eight: The Governor’s Plan

      Epilogue

      Aftermath

      Introduction

      This is a historical account with fictionalized dialogue.

      Truth is often the basis for fiction as one sorts through volumes of work trying to discover what, in fact, is truth.

      Together with my life partner, fellow researcher, and tireless editor, Joyce Mitchell, we have searched, read, debated, interviewed, visited and explored countless writings, divergent views and physical sites that constitute what we know of today as the monolithic Mormon religion.

      Purported scholarly works complete with footnotes, are not always reliable in searching for the truth. We look at not only the quality of our sources, but also the author, the references, and even the publisher.

      It is the same when searching for the truth at the beginnings and development of the Latter-Day Saints, the Mormons.

      In piecing together the reliable and unreliable with equal scrutiny, timelines are developed. That information is woven together, even when preparing to write based on truth.

      In putting together the truth, there is always what is left unsaid.

      It is the gaps found in the authentic history that led to this writing about the assassination of Mormon leaders, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, while they were incarcerated at the Hancock County Jail in Carthage, Illinois.

      The gaps are in the history of the perpetrators of the killings; Illinois Governor Thomas Ford, and Warsaw, Illinois newspaper publishers and editors, Thomas Gregg and Thomas Sharp.

      A wise professor of creative writing once said, To be readable, it must be plausible.

      The involvement of these three men, all connected to the conflict of politics and religion between the Mormons and non-Mormons of Hancock County, is based in irrefutable history.

      Hancock County, Illinois was hemorrhaging.

      This is a historically correct novel about a devious cabal of three men who conspired to murder Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter-day Saints religion, while he was incarcerated in Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois.

      The murder occurred on June 27, 1844, less than a week after the three men had met.

      Ironically, woven into the mindset that culminated in the assassination of the Smith brothers were two historically significant Illinois politicians, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. While neither was involved directly in the plot, their

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