Today in Mormon History - Nov 13

Today in Mormon History ...

Gordon B. Hinckley holds press conference at the Harvard Club in New York. Many heads of leading news services in attendance. The ―luncheon [is] arranged by Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, an international public relations firm contracted by the Church to help improve its image and increase its visibility. (1)
-- 15 years ago - Nov 13, 1995

Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith spent the evening at Sidney Rigdon's conversing with George Messinger Jr. a Universalist minister from Bainbridge, New York, who tried to object to Joseph's teachings but was unable to say anything for the force of truth bore him down. (2)
-- 175 years ago - Nov 13, 1835

[Mark Hofmann] Hofmann takes a polygraph test. (3)
-- 25 years ago - Nov 13, 1985


1 - Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984
2 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
3 - Whittaker, David J., The Hofmann Maze, A Book Review Essay with a Chronology and Bibliography of the Hofmann Case, BYU Studies Vol. 29, No. 1, pg.80,

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