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Junius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet. By Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005. xi + 316 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper.)
      Did Henry Clay kill the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith? Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister set out to explore the nuances of that question, with mixed results, in Junius and Joseph. Smith, along with his brother Hyrum, was gunned down on 27 June 1844 while being held in the jail at Carthage, Illinois, on charges of treason. Foister and Wicks promise "incontrovertible evidence" to support their assertion that Joseph Smith's murder was not an act planned and perpetrated by local vigilantes, but rather was a conspiracy hatched by high-level operatives of the Whig Party who were concerned that Smith's run for the presidency in 1844 would interfere with Clay's chances to be elected president (p. 5). This conspiracy, and the subsequent cover-up, consisted of two groups in addition to the one that did the shooting: a group of leading Illinois Whigs and national leaders such as Clay. . . .
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