[Graybeard58]

Well, aMorePerfectUnion did a good summary of the "character" of the "witnesses" -- many excommunicated (I believe over half of them); not including others who left the church.

I read a quote once by Mark Twain, about those "witnesses" but can't find it again.

[samtheman]

I read a quote once by Mark Twain, about those "witnesses" but can't find it again.

From Mark Twain, Roughing It, Chapter XVI

And when I am far on the road to conviction, and eight men, be they grammatical or otherwise, come forward and tell me that they have seen the plates too; and not only seen those plates but "hefted" them, I am convinced. I could not feel more satisfied and at rest if the entire Whitmer family had testified.