Spencer W. Kimball · 1970 October General Conference · 1970-10-03
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 IA scan/OCR witness (conferencereport1970sa); corrected speaker calling and session/date metadata and trimmed bled-in trailing material.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: collated against the conferencereport1970sa djvu OCR witness (Saturday, October 3 afternoon session; President Joseph Fielding Smith introduces 'President Spencer W. Kimball, Acting President of the Council of the Twelve' as the first speaker that afternoon, followed by Elder Hartman Rector, Jr.). Confirmed talk boundary: opens 'My brothers and sisters and friends...' and ends at Kimball's own 'I pray, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.' Found and removed a serious boundary error: the file as ingested had bled the entire following talk by Elder Hartman Rector, Jr. ('Man is a spirit living in a house of clay...' through 'in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.') directly onto the end of Kimball's talk, with President Joseph Fielding Smith's transition remarks ('We have just listened to Spencer W. Kimball...') sandwiched between; all of that trailing material has been removed since it belongs to a separate, out-of-scope talk. Corrected calling_at_time to 'Acting President of the Council of the Twelve' (per the scan's own byline, not just 'Quorum of the Twelve Apostles') and set session/date to Saturday, October 3, 1970 per the scan. No other content changes; no authoritative CHL catalog record found distinct from the IA item; source_url retained as the verified IA scan.
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