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(vtr coming)MCKAY
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The leader of the world's two-and-three-quarter (M)
million Mormons -- David McKay -- died today inSalt Lake City.
He was 96, and had headed the
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints since
1951.
McKay had been in failing health for several
months.
McKay
*I had shunned publicity, but several years
ago he granted an interview to Station KU-TV in
Salt Lake City:SOUND ON TAPE IN HERE:
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(OUTCUE:"...OF MAKING OTHERS HAPPY, AGE DOESN'T
COUNTY.)LIVE:HIX
McKay's most likely successor is Joseph Fielding
Smith, grandson of the Church's sixth President.Smith is 93.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: David McKay passes], script, January 18, 1970, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1263724/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.