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The letter was one of hundreds of documents concerning the history of the Latter Day Saint movement that surfaced in the early 1980s. The salamander letter presented a view of Latter Day Saint founder Joseph Smith's life that stood sharply at odds with the commonly accepted version of the early progression of the church Smith established.
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The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement)[1] is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian Restorationist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.
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Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was 24, Smith published the Book of Mormon.
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Not long before a series of deadly pipe bombs shook Utah’s Mormon community in 1985, a controversial document threatened to challenge the very roots of the religion. That document — known as the "White Salamander Letter" — turned out to be a fraud, and the once beloved collector responsible for manufacturing it also happened to orchestrate the bombings in a failed attempt to cover up his deception.
What Is The 'White Salamander Letter,’ The Document Central To The 1985 Mormon Bombings?...
Mark Hofmann’s facade as a sweet religious man crumbled in 1986 when he was slapped with multiple charges for crimes from one year prior, including first-degree murder, delivering a bomb, and constructing or possessing a bomb for a series of bombings.
Who Is Mark Hofmann, The Mormon Bomber Who Killed To Conceal His Counterfeit Scheme?...
His specialties were controversial works that concerned the Mormon church. Leading up to the bombings, Hofmann was best known as the person who revealed the controversial "white salamander" letter, which challenged the foundation of the Mormon church.
Murder Among the Mormons: What to Know About the Controversial "White Salamander" Letter...
But perhaps the most shocking is what led Mark Hofmann to pause his string of forgeries to start building bombs. That inciting incident? The Salamander Letter.
What Is the Salamander Letter from Netflix’s ‘Murder Among the Mormons’?...
He paid in cash, but I later noticed something odd about one of the bills he’d given me. Written in the upper margin of the bill someone had written, “white salamander letter.”
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He had spent most of his adult life in the Mormon leadership. Mormons believe he was a prophet of God who received divine inspiration as he engineered a vast expansion overseas.
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The series gives a significant amount of focus towards Salamander letter and the bomber from Utah called Mark Hofmann, who misled the LDS church. The role of all these elements in this series has been explained in detail.
Murder Among The Mormons': What Is Salamander Letter And Who Is Mark Hofmann?...