This press conference precedes the Opening Ceremony of the 1966 International PEN Congress in New York City. Administrative procedures and information is provided for the attending press, PEN America President Lewis Galantière provides thematic context (Role of the Writer in the Electronic Age, The Writer as Public Figure, New Literacy, Publishing Industry, etc.) as well as gratitude towards other PEN centers, members, organizations, and funders. David Carver, General Secretary of PEN International, reinforces PEN's greater mission worldwide and the functioning history and capacity of PEN Congresses. Carver goes on to express his disappointment on the recuse of several observers from the USSR. Arthur Miller speaks briefly and fields a couple of questions concerning Freedom of Speech. The recording abruptly ends.