Joseph Fielding Smith · 1966 October General Conference · 1966-10-01
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 n85 of conferencereport1966sa) in place of the bare item link. This is Joseph Fielding Smith's General Priesthood Meeting address on priesthood authority, distinct from his other, Second Day Morning, address. The kept file's own opening had absorbed President N. Eldon Tanner's brief announcer/choir transition preceding Smith's real remarks, which begin partway through the file ('This is a wonderful sight to me...'); retained as the session's natural lead-in. Note: President David O. McKay's own address to this Priesthood Meeting (index leaf n85-87, 'The mission of the Church'), delivered immediately after, was never ingested into the vault at all (see progress notes).
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