David O. McKay · 1955 April General Conference · 1955-04-02
Officially published Conference Report; proofread against IA scan conferencereport1955a (leaves 13-16, printed pp. 13-16). 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. The presiding officer's procedural conducting remarks (attendance counts, choir and broadcast announcements) are not included; the body is President McKay's closing discourse. Discourse appears on pp. 13-16. 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 13-16).
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 13-16, printed pp. 13-16) confirms President David O. McKay (President of the Church), First Day General Priesthood Meeting (Saturday, April 2, 1955), closing speaker, following President Stephen L Richards. Body matches scan verbatim (procedural conducting remarks correctly excluded). Set exact date, session, and talk_order.
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