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Former LDS Church Historian Dean Larsen dies at 92 (Tribune file photo) Dean Larsen speaks in General Conference in 1987. | Updated: March 4, 2021, 3:33 p.m. On a dark October day in 1985, Dean Larsen, official historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, called seven employees into his office to issue them a warning: Be careful on your way home. Larsen’s team of Mormon history specialists had just learned that Mark Hofmann, who was known at the time only as a rare-document dealer, had been seriously injured in a car bombing and, since they were involved in acquiring some of those items, they might be in danger, too. ....