A Brief Biography Of Timothy Leary
The Pied Piper Of Psychedelic 1960's died at his house in Beverly Hills at the age of 75. Timothy Francis Leary was born on October 22, 1920 in Springfield Mass and was an only child. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1959, he joined the faculty at Harvard. At Harvard, Leary began to administer drugs to other faculty members, graduate students, and even prisoners. Leary’s LSD experimentation promoted the university to turn on him. In 1963, Leary was dismissed from Harvard. His new outlaw status enabled him to freely continue his use of drugs. With a few friends, Leary left Massachusetts and headed for an estate in New York that became their new headquarters for drug “research.” It turned out to be more like a hippie commune where people could come and go as they pleased while guests meditated and took drugs. On October 6, 1966, LSD was declared illegal but that did not seem to damper his spirit.
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