ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Parkhurst, Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1959-69, discusses his years in the General Assembly: campaigns, judicial and legislative reforms, reapportionment, anti-crime bills, education legislation and civil rights legislation. Also discusses his years before the General Assembly: family, education, law school and practice, and time in the military. Also the years after: the 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention, work as Assistant Attorney General and member of the Mental Health Transition Task Force.

15 tapes, 1035 mins., 2 vols., 216 pp., plus index Interview by Cullom Davis, 1980-81 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes and photocopies of pictures and articles.