CR October 1965

THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIFTH SEMIANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Official Report Of The 135th Semiannual General Conference Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Sermons and proceedings of October 1-3, 1965, from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah Joseph Anderson, Clerk of the Conference

The One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Semi-Annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City Utah, October 1, 2, 3, 1965.

The general sessions of the conference were held at 10:00 a. m. and 2 p.m. Friday, and Saturday and at 8:00 a. m. and 2 p.m. Sunday. A Missionary Conference was held Friday at 7 p.m. The General Priesthood meeting was held Saturday evening, October 2, 1965 at 7 p.m.

Through the cooperation of 159 television and 30 radio stations, extensive coverage was made possible to millions in the United States and parts of Canada from coast to coast and in Hawaii, totaling some 575 hours of donated time.

Conference sessions on Saturday and Sunday mornings, released over international radio through the five WRUL Church-owned transmitters located near Boston, were beamed to Europe, Africa and South America. In addition, translations of the Saturday morning session were broadcast Sunday evening to all of South America in Spanish and Portuguese and in German to Europe.

Through these releases, closed-circuit Conference transmissions to Germany and Great Britain for the first time were made possible.

Direct translation in the German language of the Saturday morning session was received over oceanic cables by Saints in Germany assembled in chapels located at Hamburg, Essen, Stuttgart, Munich, and Darmstadt. In addition, proceedings in English of the Sunday morning session were transmitted for the benefit of those servicemen and missionaries located in Germany.

Saints assembled in chapels in Great Britain also received the English transmission of the Sunday morning session at Reading, Bristol, Merthyr Tydfil, London, York, Durham, Manchester, Belfast, Paisley, and Kirkcaldy.

By television and over a number of radio stations in South America, Spanish and Portuguese translations of the Saturday morning's proceedings were broadcast within hours following the Conference by means of tape recordings. Stations in the following South American cities have to date verified these broadcasts:

Santiago, Chile; Lima, Peru; Cuzco, Peru; Ica, Peru; Cochambamba, Bolivia; Curitiba, Brazil; Cacador, Brazil; San Paulo, Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Artigas, Uruguay; Melo, Uruguay.

For the fourth consecutive time, daily sessions of Saturday and Sunday were broadcast during early morning hours over KIRO Radio at Seattle. These broadcasts could be heard by members of the Church in New Zealand, Australia and Islands of the Pacific.

Daily sessions of the three-day Conference again were recorded and rebroadcast over KSL Radio during early morning hours to Islands of the Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean area, and many states in the United States.

The General Priesthood meeting was relayed by closed-circuit to members of the Priesthood gathered in the Assembly Hall and in 438 separate gatherings from coast to coast in the United States and Canada. Five stake buildings in the Salt Lake area and the fieldhouse at BYU in Provo received the Conference over closed-circuit television.

The opening session of the One Hundred Thirty-Fifth semi-annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Friday morning, October 1, 1965 at 10:00 a. m. with President David O. McKay presiding and his counselor President Hugh B. Brown conducting the services.

The Relief Society Singing Mothers from the Virgin River Region in Southern Utah, with Florence Jepperson Madsen conducting and Roy M. Darley at the organ furnished the music for the session.

President David O. McKay was present and presided at each session, but Saturday afternoon. His counselors, President Hugh B. Brown, and President N. Eldon Tanner conducted the services under his direction.

Elder Joseph Anderson was Clerk of the Conference.

General Authorities of the Church Present

The First Presidency: David O. McKay, Hugh B. Brown and Nathan Eldon Tanner. President McKay attended all of the sessions of the Conference except the Saturday afternoon session.

The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: Joseph Fielding Smith, Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra T. Benson, Mark E. Petersen, Delbert L. Stapley, Marion G. Romney, LeGrand Richards, Richard L. Evans, Howard W. Hunter, Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson.

Patriarch to the Church: Eldred G. Smith.

Assistants to the Twelve Apostles: Alma Sonne, ElRay L. Christiansen, John Longden, Sterling W. Sill, Henry D. Taylor, William J. Critchlow, Jr., Alvin R. Dyer, Franklin D. Richards Theodore M. Burton, Thorpe B. Isaacson, Boyd K. Packer, Bernard P. Brockbank.

The First Council of the Seventy: Antoine R. Ivins, Seymour Dilworth Young, Milton R. Hunter, Bruce R. McConkie, Marion D. Hanks, A. Theodore Tuttle, Paul Harold Dunn.

Presiding Bishopric: John H. Vandenberg, Robert L. Simpson, Victor L. Brown.

General Officers and Other Authorities Present

Church Historian and Recorder: Joseph Fielding Smith, with A. William Lund and Earl E. Olson, assistants.

Members of the Church Board of Education, Church educational authorities and supervisors.

Presidents of Stakes and their Counselors, Presidents of Temples, Patriarchs quorum presidencies, and members of the Melchizedek and Aaronic Priesthood.

Auxiliary Officers, General, Stake and Ward, from all parts of the Church.