David O. McKay · 1961 October General Conference · 1961-09-29
OCR ingestion with auto-cleaning and paragraph reflowing against the Internet Archive conferencereport1961sa scan. Archive snapshot pending.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Internet Archive conferencereport1961sa scan/OCR; confirmed body text, date/session metadata, and talk boundaries against the surrounding running heads.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Ingestion of a missing discourse (McKay's opening address on freedom, liberty, and the right to worship, First Day Morning Meeting) omitted from the earlier heavyweight pass over this conference. Rebuilt page reading order from conferencereport1961sa's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py); confirmed this is a genuine discourse (not a running head) by tracing every 'PRESIDENT DAVID O. McKAY' occurrence across the volume, several of which were misOCR'd running heads over Alvin R. Dyer's, Ezra Taft Benson's, and Henry D. Moyle's own talks and were correctly excluded. This conference's opening session fell on Friday, September 29, 1961 (per the report's own dateline). De-hyphenated and reflowed against the scan text. Renumbered talk_order across all existing 1961-10 files to seat this address as the conference's first talk, matching the 1956-10/1957-04/1958-04/1958-10/1959-04/1959-10/1961-04/1962-04/1962-10/1969-10 precedent for reinserting missing McKay discourses.
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