Visiting historic sites tethers individuals to the stories of the early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...

There is the recreated Carthage Jail set, in which actors portray the contested events and Griffin is filmed speaking ardently about his hypothesis.

For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy — on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph ...

Final volume of the Joseph Smith Papers is published on the anniversary of the church founder's death.

The couple posed for a selfie with the statue of Joseph and Hyrum Smith at the Historic Carthage Jail and a newfound friend, Jessica Gooch, a Nauvoo performing missionary from Texas who happens to ...

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A statue of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum outside Carthage Jail. But the tender side was there as well, especially toward children.

Among them was the “pepperbox” revolver used by church founder Joseph Smith to shoot three of his killers when he was murdered at Carthage, Illinois, in 1844.

Actors portray the mob that killed Joseph Smith at the Carthage Jail at a studio in Provo on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012. Artist Casey Childs will use the photographs as a basis for a series of large ...

On the morning of June 28, 1844, the bodies of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum, who was also killed in the jail, were taken by wagon from Carthage to Nauvoo, where more than 8,000 believers ...

Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith leave for Carthage. They are met by Captain Dunn and a militia of 60, four miles west of Carthage. Joseph says, "Do not be alarmed. . . . They can only ...

Adam Petty, of the Church History Department, speaks to the crowd at a commemorative service June 27 outside the Historic Carthage Jail.

While seething mobs converged around them the Prophet Joseph and his brethren quietly submitted themselves to imprisonment in Carthage Jail Now as never before ...