Sandra Tanner on 1st Vision, Books of Mormon, Abraham, Mark Hofmann - Mormon Stories Ep. 473

In part 2 of our interview with Sandra Tanner, Sandra discusses challenges that she and her late husband had with Joseph Smith's First Vision, the Book of Mormon, the Book of Abraham, along with her interactions with Joseph Fielding Smith, Legrand Richard, and famous Mormon forger and murderer Mark Hofmann.

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Timecodes:
00:18 Going from 'mom & pop' to a household name
03:00 Writing Joseph Fielding Smith
05:43 Question to J.F. Smith
08:44 Getting his answer
12:38 Meeting LeGrand Richards
20:46 Being able to see the document and getting a threatening letter
25:07 How did Smith come up with the BoM?
27:47 BoM placed in its time and critique
38:28 Getting back to the Tanner story
43:50 Church announces having the papyri and publishes them
46:17 Early 1900 Egyptologists already knew BoA was fake
47:13 Tanners published Smiths alphabet and grammar
48:20 Mark Hoffman case
50:24 Mark reads Tanners book and is mad at the church
52:23 Salamander letter by Martin Harris
54:49 Thinking it isn't real. Trying to find out the truth
59:44 Publishing their point of view that it's fake
1:00:25 Mark Hoffman visits Sandra
1:04:07 Sandra tells Jerald about Mark’s visit
1:05:52 Bombs starting going off
1:08:22 Mark Hoffman tells the church he has the McLellin collection
1:10:35 Church want Steve Christianson to check, and Mark kills him
1:12:00 Mark kills Kathy Sheets
1:12:35 Third bomb
1:18:00 Tanners become news. People recognize now they were calling Mark out
1:20:00 Conclusion

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