David O. McKay · 1966 October General Conference · 1966-10-02
OCR ingestion with auto-cleaning and paragraph reflowing against the Internet Archive conferencereport1966sa scan. Archive snapshot pending.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Internet Archive Conference Report OCR (conferencereport1966sa); body verified against scan.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Ingestion of a missing discourse: the conference's closing address, prepared by President McKay (who was not present in person that afternoon per President Joseph Fielding Smith's introduction) and read by his son Robert R. McKay, testifying of eternal life and the reality of the resurrection. Flagged as missing in a prior heavyweight pass's note on the sibling Dyer file (1966-10-dyer-inspiration-from-the-teachings-of-the-gospel.md), which observed 'President David O. McKay's closing address to this conference... was never ingested into the vault at all.' Rebuilt page reading order from conferencereport1966sa's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py); confirmed this immediately follows Elder Alvin R. Dyer's address (already ingested) via President Joseph Fielding Smith's introduction, and ends with 'Amen' immediately before Smith's closing acknowledgments and the conference's adjournment. De-hyphenated and reflowed against the scan text. Seated as the last (34th) talk of the conference, matching the global sequential talk_order schema already in use across this conference's other files, and the prior-conference precedent for reinserting missing McKay discourses generally.
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