John D. Lee in private journal testifies that Brigham Young did not know about the massacre until after it happened and would have tried to stop it if he could.
- Type
- Personal Journal / Diary
- Source
- John D. Lee Excommunicated
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- DirectReprint
- Reference
John D. Lee, Journal, ca. July 20, 1871, rep. in Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks, eds., A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848–1876 (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1955), 2:164
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- Transcription
(About July 20th, 1871), I had a lengthey interview with the reverend Mr. Braun, one of the advocates of young Joseph. . . . But let this, My Testim[on]y, suffice from troubling Me on the subJect any More: Brigham Young knew nothing of the Mountain Massacre until it was all over; & verry Much regretted it when he heard of it, & I am satisfied that he never would have suffered it, could [he] have preventd.
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