Earl Conrad's interview with Professor Albert Einstein

This manuscript is the original typed transcript from Earl Conrad's interview with Professor Albert Einstein in 1945.  Archival records show that a photographer was present at the interview, but it is unknown exactly how this transcript was created.  It is possible that the interview was recorded in audio format. It is more likely that a third party, such as a secretary, was present to record the interview, which was then transcribed later.

Mr. Conrad's interview with Albert Einstein was published in the Chicago Defender. In this manuscript Mr. Conrad states that after publication in the Defender, Mr. Conrad sent a 150 word letter to all of the New York Newspapers, the three wire services (Association Press, United Press and International News Service); two national magazines (Time and Newsweek), and three major radio broadcasting systems (Columbia, National Broadcasting Co. and Mutual Broadcasting Co.). The balance of this manuscript reveals how disheartened Mr. Conrad is that the National Press did not take up this story, and expresses his thoughts on the reasons why such an important story was ignored.

In this manuscript Earl Conrad expresses his belief that the suppression of the interview with Professor Einstein from publication by the national presswas deliberate, and is a reflection that one of Professor Eisnteins interview statements has been proven true, that" fascism is far from vanquished."

Earl Conrad states in this manuscript that he is deliberately following up his interview with Albert Einstein, with an interview with Edward Nelson, "the 56-year-old Negro superintendent of the building in which I am located, because I have been amazed to discover the trememdous amount of view held in common by an unkown and 'ordinary' Negro laborer, and a world-famous scientist."  Mr. Conrad's original intention in his "American Viewpoint" studies has been to "portray exclusively white attitudes toward the Negro, but the varying Negro positions also constitue 'viewpoints' and they should be represented .. and Nelson's is one of them."

Albert Einstein's letter to Earl Conrad indicating Mr. Einstein's willingness to be interviewed by Mr. Conrad regarding the Negro question. This original letter is on Professor Einstein's embossed stationery and contains his original signature.

This photograph of Albert Einstein is in the same archival folder as Mr. Conrad's transcript of his interview and the other Einstein related manuscripts. The photograph is not signed by the photographer or anyone else. Archival evidence indicates that a photographer was present during the Earl Conrad interview of Professor Einsten. It is unknown if this photograph was taked at the time, or if this photograph is from another event.