I have long been fascinated with the life of Porter Rockwell. There was a restaurant nearby my house that was dedicated to Porter's legacy that I loved to frequent and soak up the ambiance and, of course, I 'd heard all the stories of this enigmatic man. He led such an interesting life! So when I saw that The Trial of Porter Rockwell was coming out, I was excited to see it.
We are introduced to Porter as he is being taken to jail after being caught and charged with the attempted murder of Lilburn Boggs, former governor of Missouri. What follows is Porter's trial and the witnesses who came forward to claim that they knew Porter did it. What the viewer sees, however, is an innocent man fighting for his life and the underlying possibilities of what really happened that night. The movie held just the right amount of tension to keep me glued to the screen and I appreciated the way a court case in the 1800s was portrayed. The actor playing Alexander Doniphan was particularly talented. I do wish the movie would have been longer, but it will definitely whet your appetite to know more about this man and his extraordinary life.
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It was a rainy May evening in 1842 when the quiet of the Boggs family home was shattered by gunfire. Though gravely wounded, Governor Lilburn Boggs—best known for his extermination order against members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—survived the attempt on his life. What followed was a crime investigation that had at its center echoes of the bitter history between the Latter-day Saints and the ruthless politician. The inquest was concentrated on two of the very men in the crosshairs of Boggs’s own deadly objective: Joseph Smith and his loyal friend Porter Rockwell.In The Trial of Porter Rockwell, readers will experience the dramatic hunt for Governor Boggs’s assailant and the uncertain justice faced by the legendary man whose very life depended on proving his innocence.
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