Ezra Taft Benson · 1953 October General Conference · 1953-10-04
Official printed text of the One Hundred Twenty-fourth Semi-Annual (October) General Conference, held October 2, 3, and 4, 1953. The Church History Catalog record for the October 1953 Conference Report could not be independently verified this session (client-rendered catalog site; no browser tool access available); the Internet Archive scan (conferencereport1953sa) is retained as the top-level source rather than guessing a record ID. Heavyweight review collated the text page-by-page against that scan (leaves 119-123); the light-review draft body already matched the scan closely; verified wording and confirmed no additional OCR corrections were needed beyond what the light pass had already fixed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against IA scan/OCR witness; confirmed body text already matched the scan.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against IA scan conferencereport1953sa (leaves 119-123); confirmed speaker (Ezra Taft Benson, of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, per printed byline and McKay's introduction), calling (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, per printed roster leaf 1-2), session (Third Day Afternoon Meeting, Sunday, October 4, 1953, immediately following the sustaining of Evans, Brown, and Hanks), and talk_order (first speaker of the afternoon session, per McKay's introduction naming Benson then McConkie next). No additional OCR corrections were needed beyond what the light pass had already fixed. CHL catalog record for October 1953 could not be verified with available tools this session; kept IA scan as source per docs/review.md rather than fabricate a record ID.
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.