Episode Five: The Grandfathers of Joseph Smith: President Brigham Young said of Joseph Smith, “The Lord had his eyes upon him and upon his father and upon his father’s father and upon their progenitors clear back to Abraham….He has watched that family and that blood as it has circulated from its fountain to the birth of that man.” (DBY 108) This episode of History of the Saints is about the ancestors of Joseph Smith and how that heritage influenced him.

Scholars: Richard L. Anderson, Gene Sessions, Donald Q. Cannon.