page_title: Attempted assassination of Lilburn Boggs
section_title: Porter Rockwell
hierarchical_section_title: Attempted assassination of Lilburn Boggs / Aftermath / Porter Rockwell
caption_attribution_description: English: Contemporary photograph of Porter Rockwell
context_page_description: The attempted assassination of Lilburn Boggs was an attempted murder of former Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs on May 6, 1842 in his home in Independence, Missouri.
context_section_description: Officials accused Orrin Porter Rockwell, one of Smith's longest and closest followers.
  Rockwell was one of the very first members of the Latter Day Saint movement. At 16 years old, Rockwell was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 1830, the day the church was organized; it is most likely that Rockwell was the youngest member of the first group to be baptized into the church.
  Rockwell was eight years younger than Joseph Smith. When Smith was publishing the Book of Mormon, Rockwell would work by picking berries at midnight and hauling wood into town in order to help pay for the publishing of the book.
  Rockwell served as a loyal personal bodyguard to both Smith and Brigham Young.
caption: Porter Rockwell, an early and close associate of Joseph Smith, was accused of having committed the shooting.
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