Utah Weekly Forum with Rebecca Cressman
Utah Weekly Forum is a weekly community affairs conversation about the growing and changing needs, resources, and issues affecting the diverse people and communities along the Wasatch Front mountains, within Salt Lake City, and beyond. Utah Weekly Forum is hosted and produced by Rebecca Cressman, KSFI Midday Radio Personality in Salt Lake City. The interview program is broadcast Sunday evenings on FM100.3, KSFI Radio at 11:00pm and on 103.5 FM on Sunday mornings at 5:30am. You can reach Rebecca with questions and show ideas at Rebecca@FM100.com.
Lessons Learned from Utah's Mountain Meadows Massacre
In 1857, Utah settlers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints were at war with the federal government. During the heightened hostilities, Iron County militiamen deliberately massacred a wagon train full of more than 100 men, women, and children traveling west from Arkansas. The Mountain Meadows Massacre was one of the worst atrocities of the American West and of the church's history. But how did it happen? And what do new details just published about the aftermath of the tragic event tell us about the risk that comes from current day hostilities and polarization in the country? In this week's episode of Utah Weekly Forum, FM100.3 Host Rebecca talks with historian Richard E Turley Jr., co-author, with Barbara Jones Brown, of the new book "Vengeance is Mine; The Mountain Meadows Massacre and its Aftermath."
