Ezra Taft Benson · 1955 April General Conference · 1955-04-03
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1955a (leaves 45-50, printed pp. 45-50). CHL catalog record for April 1955 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA; Chrome extension unreachable this session); IA retained as top-level source per docs/review.md. Discourse appears on pp. 45-50. Title is supplied (Conference Report discourses of this era were untitled).
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 full scan range (leaves 45-50).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: CHL catalog record for April 1955 could not be verified this session (client-rendered SPA, Chrome extension unreachable); IA scan conferencereport1955a kept as retained top-level source per docs/review.md. Page-by-page collation against the scan (leaves 45-50, printed pp. 45-50) confirms Elder Ezra Taft Benson (Council of the Twelve, and Secretary of Agriculture), Second Day (Sunday, April 3, 1955) afternoon session, following Bishop Thorpe B. Isaacson and preceding President Joseph Fielding Smith. The prior ingestion was truncated after the printed-page-46/47 footnote about President Cornelius Zappey (cutting off roughly two-thirds of the way through); restored the full remaining text verbatim from the scan through the closing 'Amen,' merging in the second half previously mis-split into a separate file under the running-head OCR fragment 'ELDER EZRA / •AFT BENSON 47' (id: 1955-04-ezra-of-joseph-smith-the-prophet-and-for, now deleted as a duplicate — same discourse, not a separate talk). Removed running heads/page numbers/day markers bleeding mid-paragraph (leaf 47-48-49-50 headers). Set exact date, calling, session, and talk_order.
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