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A Las Vegas jury determined in 1978 that the will, leaving Dummar $156 million, was a forgery. [4] Dummar's story was later adapted into Jonathan Demme's film Melvin and Howard in 1980, in which he was portrayed by actor Paul Le Mat. A 2005 reinvestigation of the circumstances surrounding the so-called Dummar Will yielded new evidence not ...
May died in 2004. [ 5 ] The Manacled Mormon case , [ 6 ] also known as the Mormon sex in chains case , was a case of reputed sexual assault and kidnap of Kirk Anderson, a young missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), by an American woman, Joyce McKinney, in England in 1977.
October – LDS psychologist Robert D. Card presented his research on changing sexual attractions on Mormon men and women using shock aversion and hypnosis techniques at the AMCAP conference. [76] The goal of his treatment was eliminating same-sex sexual behavior and having his clients enter an opposite-sex marriage as was common among the ...
WWI soldiers lived in close quarters, where germs were rapidly spread. The influenza disease was underestimated at first, but caused the death of hundreds of soldiers on all sides of the war, LDS soldiers included. [6] Throughout World War I, approximately 700 Latter-day Saint soldiers lost their lives from either warfare or disease. [6]
June 13, 1978 edition of BYU student newspaper The Universe about the end of the Latter-day Saint ban on Black male ordination. The 1978 Declaration on Priesthood was an announcement by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) that reversed a long-standing policy excluding men of Black African descent from ordination to the denomination's priesthood and both ...
[4]: 5, 52–53 Teichert painted over 400 murals, [12] and is known for those inside the Manti Utah Temple, as well as a set of 42 murals depicting events in the Book of Mormon. [12] [11]: 11 In the mid-1950s, she put the Book of Mormon murals on slides for presentations. Despite wanting to make them available in book form, this would not ...
Carleton later said it was "a sight which can never be forgotten." After gathering up the skulls and bones of those who had died, Carleton's troops buried them and erected a cairn and cross. [41] Carleton interviewed a few local Mormon settlers and Paiute Native American chiefs and concluded that there was Mormon involvement in the massacre.
In 1857–1858, President James Buchanan sent U.S. forces to the Utah Territory in what became known as the Utah Expedition. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Mormons or Latter-day Saints, fearful that the large U.S. military force had been sent to annihilate them and having faced persecution in other areas, [10] made preparations for defense.