ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Redmond, Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1959-81, discusses his years in the Illinois General Assembly: work on conservation, mass transit, education, crime and corrections legislation; appropriations; various Illinois Governors, and his retirement. Also discusses his life before the assembly: family, work as a photography model, law school and practice, and Du Page County politics. Also recalls his work at the Prisoner Review Board and in DuPage County and Illinois politics after his retirement.

30 tapes, 1260 mins., 2 vols., 300 pp., plus index Interview by Lee Nicholson, 1982 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes and photos.