CR April 1965
THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Official Report Of The 135th Annual General Conference Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Sermons and proceedings of April 4-6, 1965, from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah Joseph Anderson, Clerk of the Conference
The One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, April 4, 5, and 6, 1965.
The general sessions of the conference were held at 8:00 a. m. and 2:00 p.m. Sunday, and at 10:00 a. m. and 2:00 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. The General Priesthood Meeting was held Monday evening, April 5, at 7:00 p.m.
Conference was again widely heard and seen in the United States and parts of Canada over 169 television and 30 radio stations, time and facilities being donated to bring the Conference to millions without charge.
South American airlines carried tapes translated in Spanish of the Sunday morning session to missions in South America, and by special arrangements broadcast over radio stations within a matter of hours following the session.
Jet airliner carried tape recordings of the Saturday morning session to Europe for transmission in both English and German over Radio Luxembourg, and was heard throughout Europe and Great Britain Sunday evening, April 11th, following the Conference.
The five WRUL church owned shortwave transmitters located near Boston carried Sunday and Monday morning sessions direct to Europe, Africa, and South America. In addition, the session of Sunday morning was broadcast in both Spanish and Portuguese to all of South America and in German to Europe Monday afternoon. Hundreds of letters were received from 39 countries in response to these shortwave broadcasts.
For the third consecutive time, daily sessions of Sunday and Monday were broadcast early morning hours over KIRO Radio at Seattle. These broadcasts being 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.
Films of the Conference are being viewed by members abroad, provided missions and stakes for showing in ward and branch gatherings in Australia, Germany, France, Great Britain, and South America. Sound-track translations in German, French and Spanish were provided respective foreign speaking areas.
The General Priesthood meeting was relayed by closed-circuit to members of the Priesthood gathered in the Assembly Hall and in 400 separate gatherings from coast to coast and in Canada. Five stake buildings in the Salt Lake area received the Conference over closed-circuit television.
President David O. McKay's message at the opening session of the Conference was read by his son. Elder Robert R. McKay. The President's son Edward R. McKay read a message from President McKay to the Priesthood Monday evening.
A full report of the Sunday morning Tabernacle Choir and Organ Broadcast and the CBS Church of the Air Broadcast is included in this record.
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 Sunday and Monday afternoon meetings when he remained in his apartment in the Utah Hotel and watched and listened to the proceedings by television.
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, Assistant.
Members of the General Church Priesthood Committee:
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.