Adam S. Bennion · 1954 April General Conference · 1954-04-05
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1954a (leaves 96-101, printed pp. 96-101). CHL/official-Church verification not completed this session (client-rendered SPA catalog not reachable by available tools); IA retained as top-level source per docs/review.md.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness against the extended scan range (leaves 96-101).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: CHL catalog record for April 1954 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA, no browser tool access); IA scan conferencereport1954a kept as retained top-level source per docs/review.md. Page-by-page collation against the scan (leaves 96-101, printed pp. 96-101) confirms this is Elder Adam S. Bennion's (Council of the Twelve) address concluding the Third Day Afternoon Meeting (fifth session), Monday, April 5, 1954, immediately following Elder Clifford E. Young per President McKay's introduction, and the last speaker of that session. Set talk_order 6, exact date, calling, and session. Kept the printed drop-cap opening 'Y BRETHREN AND SISTERS' region as reflowed to 'My brethren and sisters' equivalent already present; body matches scan verbatim (long historical-quotation talk on pioneer history spanning six printed pages).
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