Difference between revisions of "Response to Under the Banner of Heaven, Chapter 18"

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A FAIR Analysis of:
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A work by author: Jon Krakauer

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Page	Claim	Response	Author's sources
221	William Aden was killed on 10 September 1857.	The author's claim is false: Aden was killed 2-3 days before the massacre.^[1]	^[ATTENTION!]
221n	Brigham Young's letter instructing the Mormons to leave the immigrants alone didn't appear until decades later; there is question about its provenance and authenticity.	The author's claim is false: Brigham's letter mysteriously "lost"?	^[ATTENTION!]

[note] Craig L. Foster, "Doing Violence to Journalistic Integrity (Review of: "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of a Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer)," FARMS Review 16/1 (2004): 149–174. off-site