CR April 1966
THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Official Report Of The 136th Annual General Conference Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Sermons and proceedings of April 6, 9 and 10, 1966, from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah Joseph Anderson, Clerk of the Conference
The One Hundred Thirty-sixth Annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 6, 9 and 10, 1966.
The general sessions of the conference were held at 10:00 a. m. and 2 p.m Wednesday, April 6, Saturday, April 9 and Sunday, April 10. The General Priesthood meeting was held Saturday April 9, 1966 at 7:00 p.m.
Through the cooperation of 185 television and 30 radio stations, extensive coverage totaling many hours of donated time was made possible in the United States from coast to coast and in Hawaii. Conference sessions were broadcast over international radio through the five WRUL church-owned transmitters located near Boston and beamed to Europe, Africa and South America in Spanish and Portuguese, and in German to Europe.
Through these releases, closed-circuit Conference transmissions to Germany and Great Britain were possible again.
Direct translation in the German language of some sessions was received over oceanic cables by Saints in Germany assembled in chapels located at Hamburg, Essen, Stuttgart, Munich and Darmstadt. In addition, proceedings in English of the Sunday morning sessions were transmitted for the benefit of servicemen and missionaries in Germany.
Saints assembled in chapels in Great Britain received the Sunday morning session in English in Reading, Bristol, Merthyr Tydfil, London, York, Durham, Manchester, Belfast, Paisley, Kirkcaldy.
By television and over many radio stations in South America, Spanish and Portuguese translations of sessions of the conference were broadcast within hours following the Conference by means of tape recordings. Stations in the following cities have verified these broadcasts: Santiago, Chile; Lima, Peru; Cuzco, Peru; Ica, Peru; Cochambamba, Bolivia; Curitiba, Brazil; Cacador, Brazil; Sao Paulo, Brazil Montevideo, Uruguay; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Artigas, Uruguay; Melo, Uruguay.
For the fifth consecutive time daily sessions of conference were broadcast during early morning hours over KIRO radio at Seattle. These broadcasts could be heard by members of the Church and others in New Zealand, Australia and Islands of the Pacific.
Daily sessions of the three-day Conference were recorded again and rebroadcast over KSL Radio during early morning hours to Islands of the Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, and to many states in the United States.
The General Priesthood meeting was relayed by closed-circuit to members of the Priesthood gathered in the Assembly Hall and in 438 separate gatherings from coast to coast in the United States and Canada. Five stake buildings in Salt Lake City and the BYU fieldhouse in Provo received the Priesthood meeting over closed-circuit television.
The opening sessions of the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Annual Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Wednesday morning, April 6, at 10:00 a. m. with President David O. McKay presiding and his counselor President Hugh B. Brown, conducting the service.
The Primary Children's Chorus, with Mary Ellen Smith conducting, and Alexander Schreiner at the organ, furnished the music for the session.
President McKay was present and presided at each session, except Saturday afternoon. His counselors, Presidents Hugh B. Brown, N. Eldon Tanner and Joseph Fielding Smith conducted the services under his direction.
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, and Joseph Fielding Smith, President McKay attended all sessions of the Conference except the Saturday afternoon session. Elder Thorpe B. Isaacson was absent because of illness.
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, Boyd K. Packer Bernard P. Brockbank, James A. Cullimore.
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 and Earl E. Olson, assistants.
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.