CR April 1964

THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Official Report Of The 134th Annual General Conference Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Sermons and proceedings of April 4-6, 1964, from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah Joseph Anderson, Clerk of the Conference

The One Hundred Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, April 4, 5, and 6, 1964.

The general sessions of the Conference were held at 10:00 a. m. and 2:00 p.m., Saturday, Sunday, and Monday and the General Priesthood Meeting was held in the Tabernacle Saturday evening, April 4, at 7:00 p.m.

For the first time this April, Conference was heard and seen in every state in the United States and was televised by 189 television stations volunteering their time and facilities to bring this Conference to millions. Also 12 television stations in Canada released portions of the Conference sessions.

The Saturday morning session was carried by direct wire to Montevideo Uruguay and transmitted in Spanish over Radio CARVE and beamed by shortwave through all of South America and Spain, Sunday afternoon.

Tape recordings of the Saturday morning session were carried by jet airliner to Europe for transmission in both English and German over Radio Luxembourg and were heard throughout Europe and in Great Britain, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings following the Conference.

The five WRUL shortwave transmitters near Boston, broadcast the Saturday and Sunday morning sessions direct to Europe, Africa and South America. In addition, the session of Saturday morning was broadcast in both Spanish and Portuguese to all of South America and in German to Europe, Sunday afternoon.

For the first 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 many islands of the Pacific.

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

In an effort to bring Conference to an even greater number of members abroad television films were provided missions in Germany, Great Britain and South America for showing in chapels and other Church meeting places where Saints gather to see and hear the proceedings.

The General Priesthood meeting was relayed by closed circuit to members of the Priesthood gathered in the Assembly Hall and in 391 separate gatherings from coast-to-coast and in Canada.

President David O. McKay was president and presided at each of the session, and conducted the services of each meeting.

A full report of the Sunday morning Tabernacle Choir and Organ 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, Nathan Eldon Tanner.

The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: Joseph Fielding Smith, Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra Taft 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, , 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 Committees.

Members of the Church Board of Education and the Acting Chancellor of the Church School System; also Directors and Associate Directors of Institutes, and Seminary Instructors.

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

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