Ep 54 – The Spalding Virus

On this episode, we'll be talking about the PR nightmare that was the Spalding theory as it embodied a new resurgence in the public eye. Spalding's wife, Matilda Davison, and Hingepin Sidney Rigdon went at it in a public letter exchange where she laid out the theory claiming the Book of Mormon came from her late husband's fiction and Rigdon responds with ad hominem attacks and blatant lies. After that we follow up on the conversation with Charone Frankel from last week's episode. Links: B.H. Roberts The Book of Mormon pt 3 http://www.solomonspalding.com/docs2/Rob1905a.htm Susan Black on Nauvoo population http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3025&context=byusq Full text of "Manuscript Story—Conneaut Creek https://archive.org/stream/themanuscriptsto00spauuoft/themanuscriptsto00spauuoft_djvu.txt Show links: Website http://nakedmormonismpodcast.com Twitter @NakedMormonism Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Naked-Mormonism/370003839816311 Patreon http://patreon.com/nakedmormonism Music by Jason Comeau http://aloststateofmind.com/ Show Artwork http://weirdmormonshit.com/ Legal Counsel http://patorrez.com/ Voicemail Line (864)Nake-dMo (625-3366)