These speeches cover the entire span of O'Neill's career as a congressman. Most of them were given at special events or before specific organizations. Occasionally, an interview or television show transcript, House floor speech or testimony can be found among the speeches.

Collection is open for research. Selected items are closed due to fragility; a microfilm access copy is available. Audiovisual recordings in this collection have been migrated from source media; digital use copies can only be accessed onsite in the Burns Library Reading Room.