Volume Two: Transcripts and Bibliography

File — Box: 1, Folder: 2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Contains the second part of the Scott Faulring-Sandra Tanner interviews transcript. Topics include the "Salt Lake City Messenger," Kinderhook, the radio program called "Mormon Miscellaneous," access to church documents, magic, and the Utah Lighthouse Ministry. Persons discussed include Oliver Cowdry, Marvin Hill, Bruce R. McConkie, Dee Jay Nelson, Boyd K. Packer, D. Michael Quinn, Joseph Smith Jr., and Wesley Walters. Church political and doctrinal issues include the Book of Abraham, Anthon transcript, Book of Mormon, BYU Studies, negros and the priesthood, Moody Press, and the 7th East Press. 68 pages.

Bibliography of Modern Microfilm Company, 1959-1982. 42 pages.

Transcript of an interview with Tanner conducted by James Vincent D'Arc in 1972. Excommunication, church publications, alternatives to the LDS Church, personal reflections on Joseph Smith and LDS doctrines, cultural LDS members. 24 pages

Transcript of conversation between Faulring and Roger C. Flick who knew Sandra Tanner as a young woman. 11 pages.

Transcript of a conversation between Steven Mayfield and Scott Faulring in December 1982. Background, interest in anti-LDS literature, "Stan Fields," the Tanner's book store, working for the FBI, working for the LDS Church genealogical department, the details leading to the publication of the Tanner's "Unmasking a Mormon Spy." 56 pages.

Transcript of a 1981 broadcast on KBBX-AM radio (Centerville, Utah) entitled "Mormon Miscellaneous." The radio broadcast features Bill Forrest and Brent Metcalfe interviewing Bob Brown, an active LDS Church member from Arizona who wrote They Lie in Wait to Deceive. Jerald Tanner calls in to debate Brown. 22 pages.

No Photocopying.

Dates

1972-1983

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.