Franklin D. Richards · 1969 April General Conference · 1969-04-04
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 conferencereport1969a 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 conferencereport1969a (139th Annual Conference, held Fri Apr 4 - Sun Apr 6, 1969). 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 n160-165), which lists every address with its own page range and sub-topic headings. Unlike the heavily-fragmented 1966-1968 conferences, this conference's original ingest already had each vault file corresponding to a single complete or near-complete talk, with no merging required; the defects found this pass were running-head OCR bleed into a handful of body openings/mid-bodies (fixed) and several genuinely never-ingested addresses (flagged rather than fabricated). Confirmed session and exact date from the report's own dateline (Friday Apr 4 = First Day, Saturday Apr 5 = Second Day plus the Saturday-evening General Priesthood Meeting, Sunday Apr 6 = Third Day, which was Easter Sunday that year); corrected date_precision from month to exact and added the session field (both were previously unset). Added a page-anchored source_url (leaf n20 of conferencereport1969a) in place of the bare item link. This is Elder Franklin D. Richards, distinct from Elder LeGrand Richards's Second Day Afternoon address later in this conference. Editorial flag: President David O. McKay's opening address to this conference (index leaf n4-9), read to the conference by his son Robert R. McKay (per the report's own text, since McKay was absent under doctor's orders this entire conference), was never ingested into the vault at all.
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