CR April 1963
THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Official Report Of The 133rd Annual General Conference Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Sermons and proceedings of April 5-7, 1963, from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah Joseph Anderson, Clerk of the Conference
The one Hundred Thirty-Third 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, April 5, 6, and 7, 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, April 6, 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 at Salt Lake City, Utah and by arrangement through KSL, stations throughout the United States, and in Canada Hawaii, and Australia made available portions of the Conference sessions to their listening or viewing audiences. Conference sessions were released over International Short-wave station WRUL near Boston, Mass. by way of its New York studios. By this means the Conference proceedings were carried in English to all parts of Europe, to Africa, Central and South America, and parts of Asia. A Spanish translation was carried by short wave to Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean area.
The Saturday morning session, in addition to being broadcast direct, was video-taped for release Sunday morning over 119 television stations in the United States, Canada Hawaii and Australia.
The General Priesthood meeting was relayed by closed circuit to members of the Priesthood gathered in the Assembly Hall and in 359 other Church buildings from coast to coast, and in Alaska and Canada.
The Sunday morning services were carried live by 56 television and radio stations from Denver to the West Coast from the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City.
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 133 to 137.)
Elder Joseph Anderson was Clerk of the Conference.
General Authorities of the Church Present
The First Presidency: David O. McKay, Henry D. Moyle, Hugh B. Brown.
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: Joseph Fielding Smith, Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra Taft Benson, , Delbert L. Stapley, Marion G. Romney, LeGrand Richards, Richard L. Evans, Howard W. Hunter, Gordon B. Hinckley, Nathan Eldon Tanner.
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, Milton R. Hunter , , .
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 Institutes, 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.