Haun’s Mill Massacre 1938: Everything Under The Banner Of Heaven Leaves Out
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Under the Banner of Heaven episode 3.
FX on Hulu’s Under the Banner of Heaven flashes back to the real-life Haun’s Mill Massacre of 1938, but the series leaves out many important details of the true story. Based on the true story of Brenda Lafferty’s 1984 murder, Under the Banner of Heaven features many connections to the real-life instances of Mormon violence that set a horrifying precedent for the actions in the crime series. As such, conversations between Andrew Garfield’s Detective Jeb Pyre and the Lafferty brothers often include flashbacks to such events in Mormon history, with many depicting massacres either done to or on behalf of the Latter-day Saints.
Just as Under the Banner of Heaven episodes 1 and 2 included the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, episode 3 flashes back to the brutal Haun’s Mill Massacre of 1838. However, while Under the Banner of Heaven's Mountain Meadows was a much more deadly massacre of settlers by a Mormon militia, Haun’s Mill was a massacre of Latter-day Saints on behalf of a Missouri militia under the Mormon Extermination Order. The real-life event was truly as brutal as Under the Banner of Heaven episode 3 depicts, but the short recollection of the Haun’s Mill massacre doesn’t include all of the important historic details.
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Under the Banner of Heaven episode 3 made sure to include that the Haun’s Mill massacre saw a Missouri militia murder a Mormon settlement working in a field, with the Latter-day Saints gathering into a building where the guns of the militiamen slaughtered them all with no chance of escape. The series also depicts the most brutal aspect,
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