ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Wittmond, Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1955-67, discusses issues and events of his years in the General Assembly: campaign and election, legislative priorities, personalities, Cook County and southern Illinois factions, a ferry project on the Illinois River at Brussels, the Great River Road project, conservation and recreation programs and agricultural issues. He also discusses his years before the legislature: family and life in Calhoun County and Brussels, Illinois, Quincy College, politics and elections.

13 tapes, 670 mins., 211 pp., plus index Interview by Horace Q. Waggoner, 1982-83 OPEN See collateral file