Church historian Dean Jessee — the ‘founding father’ of ‘The Joseph Smith Papers’ project — dies at age 96

Latter-day Saint historian Dean Jessee was a ‘humble, dedicated disciple of Christ,’ his longtime colleague Ronald Esplin says ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

LDS historian who ‘forever changed our understanding of Joseph Smith’ dies

A meticulous Latter-day Saint archivist and historian, whose work on Joseph Smith laid the groundwork for most modern scholarship on the church prophet, has died. Dean Jessee died in his Murray home ...