For a Church which boast of its free agency, (some might even say it’s got the freest,) one would expect the Church to provide access to any and all historical records, lectures, doctrines, and speeches for the members to study. There shouldn’t be any secrets. If the Church is true, it has nothing to hide.

Yet, the Church does not provide this access to its members.

There is no Church sanctioned access to any General Conference address before the 1970s. It’s not there. You can find them, maybe, on some internet archive, or perhaps if you were to look through old BYU records, but the Church—on its website, on its app, on all of its sources—has removed the publications.

Why has it done this? Does it have something to hide?

It does, of course. The Church was a different one before the 1970s. It had different doctrines. It had different opinions. The history of the Church is a distasteful blemish on the Church of Jesus Christ.