David O. McKay · 1945 October General Conference · 1945-10-07
Printed text of the One Hundred Sixteenth Semi-Annual (October) General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, held October 5-7, 1945, in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, as published in the official Conference Report (Church History Library call no. M204.1 A1). Heavyweight review collated the discourse page-by-page against the Church History Library preservation scan on the Internet Archive (conferencereport1945sa); running heads, page numbers, page-break hyphenation, and non-talk session material were removed and OCR/spelling errors corrected. Title supplied from the printed index/subject headings where the report prints no formal title.
CHL-contributed preservation scan of the printed Conference Report (call no. M204.1 A1); page-by-page collation surface for this review.
Independent scan of the same printed Conference Report series; consulted as a comparison witness.
Secondary transcript checked for comparison only; not canonical.
Proofread against the source text.
Heavyweight proofread against the Church History Library Conference Report scan/OCR (Internet Archive conferencereport1945sa) and the printed index, building on the prior gemini-3.5-flash light pass. Residual running heads, page numbers, page-break hyphenation, and OCR/spelling errors were corrected.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against the Church History Library preservation scan/OCR (Internet Archive conferencereport1945sa, call no. M204.1 A1), the printed index, and a secondary transcript witness. The Church publishes no 1945 General Conference text online (its archive begins in 1971) and the Church History Catalog item is a JavaScript-rendered viewer with no stable deep link, so the CHL-contributed Internet Archive scan is kept as the verified institutional source_url; a Wayback snapshot could not be created during review (Save Page Now returned 523), but the source is a permanent Internet Archive item. Running heads, page numbers, page-break hyphenation, and non-talk session material were removed; OCR/spelling artifacts corrected; session, date, calling, talk_order, and title verified against the printed index.
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.