Keith Huntress

Keith Huntress, Professor of English at the Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, analyzes an important but little known figure from early L.D.S. his￾tory — Thomas Ford, Governor of Illinois at the time Joseph Smith was killed.

Governor Thomas Ford and the Murderers of Joseph Smith

Articles/Essays – Volume 04, No. 2

Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1969): 41–52
Member and non members have criticized Governor Thomas Ford of Illinois for his inability to save Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. Huntress was arguing that Governor Ford had a lot of difficulties that he had to deal with at that time.

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