CR October 1963
THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THIRD SEMIANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Official Report Of The 133rd Semiannual General Conference Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Sermons and proceedings of October 4-6, 1963, from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah Joseph Anderson, Clerk of the Conference
The One Hundred Thirty-Third Semi-Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was held in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday October 4, 5, and 6, 1963.
The general sessions of the Conference were held at 10:00 a. m. and 2:00 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and the General Priesthood meeting was held in the Tabernacle Saturday evening, October 5, at 7:00 p.m.
All general sessions of the Conference were broadcast to overflow gatherings in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square, over a loudspeaking system and by television. Additional thousands listened to the services on the Tabernacle Grounds by means of amplifying equipment.
The proceedings were broadcast and telecast over Station KSL and KSL-TV, and by arrangement through KSL to the largest world-wide audience in the history of the Church. The proceedings were disseminated over many radio and television stations from Coast to Coast in the United States, in Hawaii; also television stations in Canada released portions of the Conference sessions.
The Conference proceedings were released over international short-wave station WRUL and carried in English to Europe, Africa, Central and South America, and parts of Asia. Spanish translations were broadcast to Central and South America and to Mexico and the Caribbean area. For the first time short-wave transmissions included German and Portuguese translations. The various sessions of the Conference were also rebroadcast over KSL the following morning.
The General Priesthood meeting was relayed by closed circuit to members of the Priesthood gathered in the Assembly Hall and in 370 other separate gatherings from Coast to Coast and in Alaska and Canada.
President David O. McKay was present and presided at each of the sessions and conducted the services of each meeting.
A full report of the Sunday morning Tabernacle Choir and Organ Broadcast is included in this record, as is also a full account of Columbia Broadcasting System's Church of the Air program. (See pages 127 to 132.)
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, , Thorpe B. Isaacson, Boyd K. Packer, Bernard P. Brockbank.
The First Council of the Seventy: , Antoine R. Ivins, Seymour Dilworth Young, , , , .
Presiding Bishopric: John H. Vandenberg, Robert L. Simpson, Victor L. Brown.
General Officers and Other Authorities Present
Church Historian and Recorder: Joseph Fielding Smith, and assistants: A. William Lund and Preston Nibley.
Members of the General Welfare Committee, Church Welfare Program.
Members of the Church Board of Education and Chancellor of the Church School System, Directors and Associate Directors of Institute, and Seminary Instructors.
Presidents of Stakes and their Counselors, Presidents of Temples, Patriarchs and quorum presidencies and members of the Melchizedek and Aaronic Priesthoods.
Auxiliary Officers, General, Stake, and Ward, from all parts of the Church.