Cindy Kelly: I’m Cindy Kelly, Atomic Heritage Foundation, and it's Monday, September 8, 2014. I’m at the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, with David Kaiser. The first thing I’d like him to do is tell us his name and spell it.
David Kaiser: My name is David Kaiser. The last name is K-A-I-S-E-R.
Irénée du Pont: My name is Irénée du Pont, Junior. I-R-E-N-E-E D-U P-O-N-T, J-R. I was born January 8, 1920, and I have not died yet.
Cindy Kelly: Well, that is something that we are all very grateful for. It is wonderful to be here today. I am Cindy Kelly, it is August 11, 2014, and we are in the gracious home of Irénée du Pont, Jr. And we are here to learn a little bit more about his life and the company who shares his name. So maybe we can start with your life.
Stephane Groueff: General James Marshall, New York, November 4, 1965.
Groueff: When and how and where did you first learn about the project and who assigned you and where and when? All the details of your assignment.
Crawford Greenewalt: My first contact was to go out to Chicago with a very large group of people and I have forgotten how many there were, perhaps fifteen or twenty as I recall, it may have been less than that. That is surely in the record too, where we were all exposed to this Chicago development.
Stephane Groueff: By whom?
Stephane Groueff: Recording. Now we are recording the interview with Mr. Walter Carpenter, DuPont, Wilmington, [Delaware].
Stephane Groueff: Now if you can give me briefly your background and where you came from and how you got connected with Kellex. Were you a Kellogg man?
John Arnold: Yes, I was a Kellogg man, and at the time I was working on an ammonia plant at Sterlington.
Groueff: Where is that?
Arnold: In Louisiana.
Groueff: Louisiana?
Stephane Groueff: It is recording, Dr. Urey.
Dr. Harold Urey: Yes.
Groueff: So where shall we start?
[We would like to thank Robert S. Norris, author of the definitive biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man, for taking the time to read over these transcripts for mispellings and other errors.]
Groueff: It is February 8, [1965] at Berkeley, California. We have Dr. Reynolds.
Wallace B. Reynolds: It is Mr. Reynolds.
Groueff: It is Mr. Reynolds.
Duane C. Sewell: Mr. Sewell.
Groueff: Sewell.
Elmer Kelly: Elmer Kelly.
Groueff: There is Mr. Kelly.
Stephane Groueff: Recording of interview with Dr. Lauchlin Currie, C-U-R-R-I-E; New York, May 13, 1965.
Dr. Lauchlin Currie: When the war broke out I was superintendent of the Bakelite Plant at Bound Brook, New Jersey. As a reserve officer then, I got reassigned to work on the proximity fuse program.
Groueff: You were in uniform?
Currie: Oh no.
Groueff: You were just Major of the—
