Brigham Young told John Doyl Lee to stop telling him the details of the massacre 2-3 months after event.
- Type
- Speech / Court Transcript
- Hearsay
- Scribed Verbatim
- Reference
Deposition of Brigham Young, ca. September 1876, MS 2674, Church History Library
- Scribe/Publisher
- Unknown
- Audience
- Utah Courts
- Transcription
Answer: Within some two or three months after the massacre he called at my office and . . . commenced giving an account of the massacre. I told him to stop, as from what I had already heard by rumor, I did not wish my feelings harrowed up with a recital of details.
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