CR October 1962
THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SECOND SEMIANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Official Report Of The 132nd Semiannual General Conference Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Sermons and proceedings of October 5-7, 1962, from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah Joseph Anderson, Clerk of the Conference
The One Hundred Thirty-Second Semi-Annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 5, 6, and 7, 1962.
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 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 loud-speaking 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 arrangements through KSL, stations throughout the United States and Canada and elsewhere made available to their listening or viewing audiences one or more of the general sessions.
The Saturday morning session was heard over 125 television stations, thirty radio stations, and five short wave stations. It was video taped for release Sunday morning for the eastern area of the United States.
The General Priesthood meeting was relayed by closed circuit to members of the Priesthood gathered in the Assembly Hall and in 338 other Church buildings from coast to coast and in Alaska and Canada.
The Sunday morning services were carried live by 18 television stations from Denver to the West Coast from the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Eighteen radio stations throughout the West broadcast this session, and three radio stations carried the program live to the Eastern part of the nation. The Sunday morning session was also beamed by short wave over facilities of Station WRUL of Boston, in Spanish to the Caribbean, Mexico and South America, and in English to Europe and Africa.
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 also included in this record. (See pages 121 to 122)
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, Mark E. Petersen, 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, Theodore M. Burton, Thorpe B. Isaacson, Boyd K. Packer, Bernard P. Brockbank.
The First Council of the Seventy: Levi Edgar Young, Antoine R. Ivins, Seymour Dilworth Young, Milton R. Hunter, Bruce R. McConkie, Marion D. Hanks, A. Theodore Tuttle.
Presiding Bishopric: John H. Vandenherg, 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 members of the Melchizedek and Aaronic Priesthoods.
Auxiliary Officers, General, Stake, and Ward, from all parts of the Church.