Thomas S. Monson · 1966 October General Conference · 1966-09-30
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 conferencereport1966sa 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 conferencereport1966sa (136th Semi-Annual Conference, held Fri Sep 30 - Sun Oct 2, 1966). 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 n145-150), which lists every address with its own page range and sub-topic headings -- as with 1966 April, this conference's original ingest had split most talks into two-to-three separate fragment files, which the index made it possible to correctly identify and merge. Confirmed session and exact date from the report's own dateline (Friday Sep 30 = First Day, Saturday Oct 1 = Second Day plus the Saturday-evening General Priesthood Meeting, Sunday Oct 2 = Third Day); corrected date_precision from month to exact and added the session field (both were previously unset). Added a page-anchored source_url (leaf n11 of conferencereport1966sa) in place of the bare item link. Corrected speaker attribution: the printed report's running head reads 'ELDER THOMAS S. MONSON' (garbled by OCR to a bare 'Thom.' and bled into the body opening), which the original ingest mistook for a speaker literally named 'Thom.' Corrected speaker/speaker_id/title/id/filename to Thomas S. Monson and removed the running-head bleed fragment from the body opening.
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