David O. McKay · 1944 April General Conference · 1944-04-09
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Conference (April 6, 7, 9, 1944), scanned by the Church History Library and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1944a). The page images are two-column; reading order was reconstructed from the DjVu word coordinates (XY-cut), then cleaned and corrected against the printed text: running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed; drop-cap and obvious OCR errors fixed. Heavyweight review (cursor-agent) collated the discourse against the IA djvu OCR of the same CHL scan; it occupies printed pp. 119-126 (image leaf = printed page + 1, verified against the IA scandata page map, e.g. leaf 8 = printed p. 7). Running heads, page numbers, the printed speaker heading, and sidehead capitalization were reconciled to the printed report. source_archived_url points to the Internet Archive item itself (a Church History Library preservation copy); a dedicated Wayback Machine snapshot still needs to be created with an authenticated Save Page Now.
CHL-contributed scan of the printed Conference Report; the djvu OCR of this item was the page-by-page collation witness. Image leaf = printed page + 1 (verified via IA scandata: leaf 8 = printed p. 7).
Proofread against the source text.
Heavyweight review (cursor-agent): collated page-by-page against the CHL-scanned Conference Report (printed pp. 119-126) via the Internet Archive djvu OCR witness; discourse boundaries, session, date, speaker, calling, and supplied title confirmed. Builds on a prior gpt-5.5 light-review pass.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: the best available authoritative source is the Church History Library preservation scan of the printed Conference Report (Internet Archive item conferencereport1944a, contributed by the Church History Library, call no. M204.1 A1). No official online text exists for 1944 (pre-1971 conferences are not on churchofjesuschrist.org), and a matching CHL catalog asset URL could not be programmatically verified, so the verified CHL-contributed IA scan is retained as source_url and the limitation is flagged here. Image leaf = printed page + 1, verified against the IA scandata page map (leaf 8 = printed p. 7). Discourse occupies printed pp. 119-126; collated against the IA djvu OCR: opening/closing boundaries verified (no truncation or adjacent-speaker bleed), running heads/page numbers and the printed speaker heading removed, sidehead capitalization reconciled to the print, and the body scanned for residual OCR/layout artifacts.
This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.