Daniel Peterson wrote:If you have evidence that Jacob Hamblin participated in the massacre, I, for one, would be interested in seeing it.
I've never heard any serious accusation to that effect.
An eyewitness (one of the children) put Jacob Hamblin on the scene at the massacre, but the more creditable historians including Bagley discredit this testimony.
If you have evidence that Jacob Hamblin participated in the massacre, I, for one, would be interested in seeing it.
I've never heard any serious accusation to that effect.
I didn't say he participated. I speculated that, despite his denials, he was involved - most likely in the cover-up.
That is easy to say, hard to prove, which sort of describes much of the anti-Mormon approach to the massacre. Hamblin was an after-the-fact guy who accumulated bits and pieces of the story, as did military investigators, newspaper reporters, and church investigators.
He wasn't a eyewitness, and thus felt that he didn't have to tell the military investigator who interviewed him things he was hearing second and third hand.