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\u201cThe Eight Witnesses,\u201d by Dale Kilbourn (LDS Media Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Filming of the dramatic portions of Witnesses<\/em><\/a> will begin very shortly.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re covered for extras in Utah, I believe, but we\u2019re still looking for movie extras \u2014 probably about a hundred of them, altogether \u2014 in the distant locations:<\/p>\n

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Upper Canada Village (Ontario, very close to the U.S.\/Canada border at New York state)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

5-11 September 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re particularly \u201cneedy\u201d for this area, which is somewhat remote. \u00a0It\u2019s about eighty minutes from Ottawa, or slightly more than two hours from Montreal.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Old Sturbridge Village (Massachusetts)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

16-18 September 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Old Sturbridge Village is roughly 1.5 hours to the west southwest of Boston.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Extras will be paid $100 USD per day. \u00a0Please note that the payment will be in U.S. dollars, not Canadian dollars, even in Canada.<\/p>\n

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We are seeking men and women between the ages of 18 and 99. \u00a0Honestly, though, if you\u2019re 112 and capable of doing the job \u2014 which won\u2019t include either speaking or stunt work! \u2014 I doubt very much that we\u2019ll turn you away.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re interested, please send your photograph, along with your name, telephone number, and email address, to\u00a03wit2019@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0as soon as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n

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If you know of any others<\/em> who might be interested, please call this to their attention and encourage them<\/em> to\u00a0send a photograph, along with name, telephone number, and email address, to 3wit2019@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0ASAP.<\/p>\n

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In connection with this project and at my request, Professors Thomas G. Alexander, James B. Allen, and Richard L. Bushman, along with the late Professor Richard Lloyd Anderson, provided the following endorsements of the importance of the Book of Mormon witnesses:<\/p>\n

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Imagine the publication and distribution of the Book of Mormon without the testimony of the witnesses.\u00a0 If there were none, Joseph Smith would have had to reply on his own word that he translated the plates.\u00a0 Many, perhaps most, people would probably have rejected the word of an uneducated farm boy. \u00a0Joseph had enough difficulty even with the witnesses convincing others of the truthfulness of his story.\u00a0 Other people including the eight witnesses saw the plates, but only the three witnesses saw them in the possession of the heavenly messenger who delivered them to Joseph.\u00a0 \u00a0The Lord asked them to testify to the truthfulness of Joseph\u2019s ministry, which they did.\u00a0 Most important, during their lifetimes all three witnesses left the church.\u00a0 Oliver Cowdery and Martin Harris returned to the fold, but David Whitmer remained in Richmond, Missouri, estranged from Mormonism<\/a> throughout the remainder of his life.\u00a0 Nevertheless, in spite of rumors to the contrary, all three continued to insist on the truth of their witness.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas G. Alexander, Ph.D.,\u00a0Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Western History, Brigham Young University; former president of the Mormon History<\/a> Association<\/span><\/p>\n

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The testimonies of the three witnesses is the closest we come to rational evidence for Mormon belief.\u00a0 Three men attest to a sensory encounter with the gold plates and a divine being.\u00a0 In an age of skepticism, when all religious belief is under attack, their statement becomes more relevant every day.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Richard L. Bushman, Ph.D., Gouverneur Morris\u00a0Professor of History Emeritus at\u00a0Columbia University; former\u00a0Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University; former president of the Mormon History Association<\/span><\/p>\n

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The testimonies of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon make Joseph Smith\u2019s account much harder to dismiss than it would otherwise be. \u00a0Plainly, since others announced that they, too, had seen and \u201chefted\u201d and heard, this means that, whatever else it was,\u00a0Joseph\u2019s account must reflect more than merely private imagination or simple personal dishonesty. \u00a0If the witnesses are judged to be reliable men of good character, their declarations pose a serious challenge to anyone who considers the claims of the Restoration.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

James B. Allen, Ph.D.,\u00a0Lemuel Hardison Redd Jr. Professor Emeritus of Western History, Brigham Young University; former Assistant Church Historian, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; former president of the Mormon History Association<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thousands of authorized copies \u00a0of the Book of Mormon have reprinted the signed experience of the eleven Book or Mormon witnesses, Three who described that an angel held and turned the individual\u00a0plates of an ancient New World Bible and Eight who narrated how they were given an ordinary experience of \u201chefting\u201d the record and examining the carefully\u00a0crafted\u00a0characters\u00a0on it. About 200 reported interviews with \u00a0these eleven are collected, which report the constant affirmation of these witnesses of seeing and lifting this historic, prophetic record, with its independent account of Christ visiting America.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Richard Lloyd Anderson (1926-2018), J.D., Ph.D.,\u00a0Professor\u00a0Emeritus of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University<\/span><\/p>\n

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