David O. McKay · 1966 April General Conference · 1966-04-09
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 conferencereport1966a 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 conferencereport1966a (136th Annual Conference, held Apr 6, 9-10, 1966 — First Day on the actual Apr 6 founding anniversary, then Second/Third Day the following weekend; 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) and cross-checked every talk boundary against the report's own exhaustive back-of-book index (leaf n159-163), which lists every address with its own page range and sub-topic headings — an unusually detailed source for this conference that made it possible to identify and correctly merge extensive page-break fragmentation (this conference's original ingest had split most talks into two-to-four separate files). Confirmed session and exact date from the report's own dateline (Wednesday Apr 6 = First Day, Saturday Apr 9 = Second Day plus the Saturday-evening General Priesthood Meeting, Sunday Apr 10 = Third Day); corrected date_precision from month to exact and added the session field (both were previously unset). Corrected speaker attribution: the printed report's running head reads 'PRESIDENT DAVID O. McKAY' (garbled by OCR to a bare 'D.'), which the original ingest mistook for a speaker literally named 'D.' Corrected speaker/speaker_id/title/id/filename to David O. McKay. FOLLOW-UP: per the report's own back-of-book index (leaf n161), this address on the Resurrection spans leaf n55-59; a prior heavyweight pass had flagged that only leaf n57-59 was ever ingested and its opening (leaf n55-56) was missing from the vault entirely. Rebuilt the missing opening from conferencereport1966a's DjVu XML word-coordinate data, prepending the true beginning of the address (the angel's declaration at the sepulcher, Mark 16:6, through the disciples-as-witnesses material) ahead of the previously-ingested 'They were men who had been witnesses...' text, and distinguished the genuine talk heading (which follows President Hugh B. Brown's introduction on leaf 55) from a misOCR'd running-head repeat of 'PRESIDENT DAVID O. McKAY' bleeding into the body text on leaf 57. Retitled from a supplied first-words title to the printed sub-heading 'The resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ' (title_supplied: false) and updated source_url to the talk's true starting leaf (n55). Renamed id/filename accordingly.
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