First Presidency makes the decision to reinstate John Doyle Lee to full membership (ordinances performed May 8-9, 1961).
First Presidency Decision to reinstate John D. Lee. Transcription in Juanita Brooks, The Mountain Meadows Massacre (Norman, Oklahoma: Univeristy of Oklahoma Press, 1991), 223
it was the action of the council after considering all the facts available that authorization be given for the re-instatement to membership and former blessings to John D Lee