Ezra Taft Benson · 1959 October General Conference · 1959-10-11
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 conferencereport1959sa 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 conferencereport1959sa (129th Semi-Annual Conference, held Oct 9-11, 1959; IA metadata confirms CHL call no. M204.1 A1 1880, 1897-). Rebuilt page reading order from the scan's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py) to safely resolve talk boundaries against the report's own session headers (FIRST/SECOND/THIRD DAY, MORNING/AFTERNOON MEETING, GENERAL PRIESTHOOD MEETING) and speaker headers. Confirmed session and exact date from the report's own dateline (Friday Oct 9 = First Day, Saturday Oct 10 = Second Day plus the Saturday-evening General Priesthood Meeting, Sunday Oct 11 = Third Day); corrected date_precision from month to exact and added the session field (both were previously unset). Added a page-anchored source_url (leaf n111 of conferencereport1959sa) in place of the bare item link. Confirmed talk boundaries (opening welcome of Elder Howard W. Hunter as the new Apostle, closing 'in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.') against the reconstructed scan text; body matches the OCR witness. This is Benson's well-known address on pornography/obscenity.
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