Oscar A. Kirkham · 1955 October General Conference · 1955-10-02
OCR ingestion with auto-cleaning and paragraph reflowing. Archive snapshot pending.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Internet Archive conferencereport1955sa scan/OCR; confirmed body text, fixed date/session metadata.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: verified source as the Church History Library-contributed Internet Archive scan conferencereport1955sa (126th Semi-Annual Conference, held Sep 30-Oct 2, 1955; IA metadata confirms CHL call no. M204.1 A1 1880, 1897-). This file's body had been entirely misattributed: what it previously contained was actually the tail end of Elder Clifford E. Young's preceding discourse (now correctly separated into 1955-10-young-when-i-was-on-my-mission.md), not any part of Kirkham's own talk. Rebuilt page reading order from the scan's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py), located Kirkham's real, distinct discourse (leaf n127, opening 'I pray for the blessings of our Heavenly Father' and closing with the same 'Amen' the original ingest had mistakenly treated as this file's own ending), and replaced the misattributed body with it. Confirmed session and exact date from the report's own dateline (Sunday Oct 2, Sunday Afternoon Session, McKay's own transition confirming Kirkham as 'our concluding speaker'); corrected date_precision from month to exact and added the session field (both were previously unset). Added a page-anchored source_url (leaf n127 of conferencereport1955sa) in place of the bare item link.
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