New Portage, Ohio. Joseph Smith traveled from Kirtland, Ohio, to New Portage to attend a Church conference and remained there until September 8. (1)
-- 175 years ago - Sep 2, 1835
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Attends funeral service of Brigham Young; at cemetery uses shorthand to record dedicatory prayer by Wilford Woodruff. (2)
-- 135 years ago - Sep 2, 1875
A month after race riots in the Watts suburb of Los Angeles, Reed Benson, Utah John Birch Society coordinator and son of Apostle Ezra Taft Benson, writes to Birch Society Members in Utah: "It is common knowledge that the Civil Rights Movement is Communist controlled, influenced and dominated. . . . Our founder and guide, Mr. Robert Welch, has instructed us that when necessary we must adopt the communist technique in our ever present battle against Godless Communism. It is urged that in the coming weeks the Utah Chapters begin a whispering campaign and foster rumors that the Civil Rights groups are going to organize demonstrations in Salt Lake City in connection with the forthcoming LDS conference. . . . A few well placed comments will soon mushroom out of control and before the conference begins there will be such a feeling of unrest and distrust that the populace will hardly know who to believe. The news media will play it to the very hilt. No matter what the Civil Rights le
aders may try to say to deny it the seed will have been sown and again the Civil Rights movement will suffer a telling blow." (3)
-- 45 years ago - Sep 2, 1965
1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
2 - Larsen, Stan (editor), A Ministry of Meetings:The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson, Significant Mormon Diaries Series No. 6, A Rudger Clawson Chronology, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City 1993
3 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
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