The Interpreter, ever eager to promote the stone-in-the-hat theory (SITH) with their collaborators FAIRLDS and Book of Mormon Central, provides a website that presents witnesses of the Book of Mormon.
https://witnessesofthebookofmormon.org/
The entry for Emma Smith features her 1879 "Last Testimony."
https://witnessesofthebookofmormon.org/other-witnesses/emma-hale-smith/
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If you click on "Statements" at the bottom of the page, you go to a site that shows excerpts from her "Last Testimony."
https://witnessesofthebookofmormon.org/other-witnesses/emma-hale-smith/statements/
The excerpts are edited to promote SITH, while omitting the portions of the interview that (i) explain the apologetic nature of the interview and (ii) undermine Emma's credibility.
For a discussion of those points, see
https://www.ldshistoricalnarratives.com/2023/08/credibility-of-emma-smiths-last.html
Some readers might want to read the actual interview for themselves in the 1879 Saints' Herald.
Inexplicably, in the footnotes the Interpreter sends readers to the anti-Mormon site Mormonthink instead of to the Church History Library, which has the original document readily available here:
https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/944ff277-298c-45e2-9005-75e0ae0faf90/0/0?lang=eng
Once again, the Interpreter violates the basic professional standards of conduct for historians:
Historians should not misrepresent their sources. They should report their findings as accurately as possible and not omit evidence that runs counter to their own interpretation.
https://www.ldshistoricalnarratives.com/p/aha-historians-standards-of.html
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