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My People Are Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge

Ezra Taft Benson · 1960 April General Conference · 1960-04-06

Fidelity

◕Authoritative print

OCR ingestion with auto-cleaning and paragraph reflowing, followed by a heavyweight page-by-page collation against the Internet Archive conferencereport1960a scan (leaves n97-n99). Boundaries, wording, and metadata verified against the primary source; archive snapshot of source_url still pending.

Witnesses

No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.

Collation history

Proofread against the source text.

Light review: in-context proofread, running-header/page-number artifact removal, and OCR typo/spacing fixes. NOT a full page-by-page scan collation.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: verified against the Internet Archive conferencereport1960a OCR (source verified, page-by-page collation done). Confirmed talk boundaries (starts after President McKay's introduction naming Elder Benson as the first speaker of the Wednesday, April 6 (Fourth Day) Morning Meeting; ends at 'Amen' before McKay's closing remarks and the choir hymn, page 96-99/leaf n97-n99). Corrected date from placeholder 1960-04-01 to the exact date 1960-04-06 and added session: Fourth Day Morning Meeting (this address was the opening talk of that session, not given April 1). Supplied a descriptive title from the talk's Hosea 4:6 refrain. No wording changes were needed beyond cursor-agent's existing lightweight cleanup; body text checked line-by-line against the scan and matches.

Corrections

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