The Mountain Meadows Massacre w/ Barbara Jones Brown | Ep. 1838

Book Club is back with Rebecca Bibliotheca and John Dehlin! Joining with them as they discuss the Mountain Meadows Massacre is author and historian Barbara Brown Jones. Barbara cowrote "Vengeance is Mine" with Richard Turley. Barbara puts down rumors about the Mountain Meadows Massacre and why it started and discusses who was to blame for it and who was not. 

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00:02:31 Introducing Book Club books
00:08:35 Barbara’s Mormon story
00:12:00 Juanita Brooks
00:18:26 Meeting descendants of victims
00:24:00 Finding out her ancestor was part of the massacre
00:26:00 Elder Eyring’s apology in 2007
00:34:30 What made the LDS hostile toward the US Government
00:37:15 The Utah War
00:42:25 The Mormon Reformation
00:43:30 Blood Atonement
00:44:35 Examples of Blood Atonement
00:48:30 The attack on the party at Mountain Meadows
00:53:40 The Parley P. Pratt theory
00:55:15 The California editors came up with the Parley P. Pratt murder
00:57:00 Putting incorrect rumors to rest
01:01:25 The wealth of the Baker-Fancher Party
01:04:15 How was this not blood atonement?
01:05:35 What was Brigham Young’s role in this?
01:09:15 They make John D. Lee the fall guy
01:13:30 What happened to the children?
01:17:50 John D. Lee trying to manage the story
01:19:50 Did Brigham Young engage in a cover up?
01:23:40 The Massacre becomes a political weapon
01:27:40 John D. Lee was the only man prosecuted and executed for the crime
01:28:30 Was John D. Lee an adopted son of Brigham Young?
01:29:50 Going after the perpetrators
01:35:35 Questions and Answers
01:39:44 Are these books part of a cover up?
01:47:20 The site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
01:51:45 The Quilt story
01:54:44 How to say sorry to the victims

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