John Longden · 1960 April General Conference · 1960-04-06
Heavyweight-reviewed against the Internet Archive OCR of the April 1960 Conference Report (conferencereport1960a). Restored roughly two-thirds of the talk that was missing from the prior draft (the ingest had captured only the opening D&C 4 quotation); the full body — reflections on the "marvelous work," conversion stories, and closing testimony — has now been transcribed verbatim from the source, removing running heads, page numbers, and hyphenation breaks.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Internet Archive OCR/scan witness (conferencereport1960a); restored missing body text, fixed session/date, and cleaned artifacts.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: source identified as Internet Archive OCR (conferencereport1960a, https://archive.org/details/conferencereport1960a), no stronger CHL/official-Church transcript located for this era; page-by-page collation against the OCR confirmed the prior draft was severely truncated (ended after the D&C 4 epigraph) — restored the full talk verbatim from source through the closing testimony and Amen. Confirmed session (Wednesday Afternoon Session/concluding session, April 6, 1960 — the fourth day of the 130th Annual Conference), speaker calling (Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles), and talk order (Lee, Romney, Longden, Milton R. Hunter, Henry D. Taylor in that session). Page anchor (n113) estimated from position in OCR; not independently confirmed against a leaf-numbered scan image.
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