Stephen L Richards · 1954 April General Conference · 1954-04-04
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1954a (leaves 31-35, printed pp. 31-35). 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; fixed 'imder' to 'under'.
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 31-35, printed pp. 31-35) confirms this is President Stephen L Richards's (First Counselor in the First Presidency) address in the Sunday Morning General Conference Session (second session), Sunday, April 4, 1954, following President David O. McKay, President Joseph Fielding Smith, and Elder Hugh B. Brown, per President McKay's introductions; McKay confirms afterward that Richards has 'just concluded speaking.' Set talk_order 5 (McKay/Benson/J.F.Smith/Brown/Richards), exact date, calling, and session. Verified the bracketed '[Hugh Nibley]' aside is present in the printed scan itself (an editorial identification of an unnamed referenced radio-hour speaker), not an invented insertion. One OCR typo fix noted above; body otherwise matches scan verbatim.
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