Ep 89 – Pass Go Collect 60 Bodyguards

On this episode, we give Willard Richards his very own NaMo Nickname and read his whitewashed history of Jo's arrest and court hearing in June of 1841. Jo had found some way to squirrel himself out from under nearly every legal trouble with which he was accused since he'd started the religion 11 years prior to this and his lawyers saw it fit to stick with the trend. We discuss how the trial of the prophet was seen by local periodicals and the Warsaw Signal's reaction to the increasing political power wielded by Jo and the church. After that we have on Gottfried to discuss Isaiah in the Book of Mormon from a nuanced perspective and finish up with a very brief listener mail segment spurring a much-needed correction. Links: Missouri Joint Fact-Finding Committee report https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/archives/resources/findingaids/fulltext/f01_f01-06.pdf Stephen A. Douglas: The Political Apprenticeship by Reg Ankrom https://books.google.com/books?id=sLEGCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=sheriff+thomas+king+1841&source=bl&ots=s1YLeZyLgj&sig=_Lz0HdyCqtzBcTsY9d_kfmT5XOA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd0M3G4pLZAhUDwWMKHSQrCogQ6AEIUzAM#v=onepage&q=sheriff%20thomas%20king%201841&f=false Times & Seasons June 1841 http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/NCMP1820-1846/id/9099 Warsaw Signal 1841 archive http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/il/sign1841.htm Calvin (Charles) Warren, Esq. http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/calvin-averill-warren 1841 Growing Conflict in Illinois https://www.lds.org/manual/church-history-in-the-fulness-of-times-student-manual/chapter-twenty-one?lang=eng Joseph Smith and the Criminal Justice System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith_and_the_criminal_justice_system Nauvoo Charter https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nauvoo_Charter 1841 articles Missouri News Articles http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/MO/Miss1841.htm#061941 1841 Quincy Whig http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/whig1841.htm#0612 MyBoM Episode 190 - Gottfried Comment https://mybookofmormonpodcast.com/2018/01/13/190/#comments Isaiah Variants in BoM https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/isaiah-and-prophets-inspired-voices-old-testament/isaiah-variants-book-mormon 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/