Historical Malpractice: Thomas Bullock

Was Thomas Bullock a scribe to Joseph Smith? Did he have plural wives while Joseph was alive? The LDS historians say yes, but the primary sources say otherwise.

“Trust the professional historians.” After all, they’re the experts…right? In these Historical Malpractice videos, I’ll lay out basic factual errors committed by LDS Church historians and apologists—errors that will make you wonder why you ever trusted “the experts.”

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Notes:
- Bullock Biography: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/thomas-bullock, or https://web.archive.org/web/20240203014534/https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/thomas-bullock
- Bullock in the LDS Biographical Encyclopedia: https://archive.org/details/latterdaysaintbi02jensrich/page/598/mode/2up
- Bullock in the Church History Biographical Database: https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/individual/thomas-bullock-1816?lang=eng&timelineTabs=allTabs, or https://web.archive.org/web/20240203014932/https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/individual/thomas-bullock-1816?lang=eng&timelineTabs=allTabs
- Bullock’s journal: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.31774821?seq=12
- Searle’s BYU Studies article: https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/authorship-of-the-history-of-joseph-smith/
- Jessee’s BYU Studies article: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol11/iss4/8/