In fact, Ken Kesey’s first introduction to LSD happened in 1959, while studying at Stanford. He was given the drug after volunteering as a research subject at the university. Kesey’s experience of ...

Ken Kesey, 66, the author of the best-selling novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" who probably gained greater fame for his lifestyle as a rebellious, drug-infused "Merry Prankster" than he did ...

Author Ken Kesey walks beside the original "Furthur" bus, made famous in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" July 17, 2001 on his farm in Pleasant Hill, Ore. Kesey, who railed ...

The family of writer Ken Kesey is reviving plans to restore his original psychedelic bus in time for the 50th anniversary of its passengers’ LSD-laced trip across America.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The family of writer Ken Kesey is reviving plans to restore his original psychedelic bus in time for the 50th anniversary of its passengers’ LSD-laced trip across America. ...

The Academy Award-winning director discusses his latest documentary, "Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place" (playing at the Varsity, in Seattle).

Ken Kesey 1935 - 2001. ... By '65, with LSD remaining legal, Kesey moves his drug parties to bigger venues in San Francisco. A $1 cover charge buys a cup of "electric" Kool-Aid, ...

In a May 14, 2014 photo, the reincarnation of author Ken Kesey's psychedelic bus Further stops along a road in Eugene, Ore. Zane Kesey, son of the late author, is on Kickstarter raising money for ...

GRANTS PASS, ORE. — Dreams of getting author Ken Kesey’s original psychedelic bus back on the road again have hit a pothole. The Kesey family is looking for a new sponsor to finance ...

While working at the mental hospital that inspired his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey became one of the first Americans to take LSD. You can relive his historic experience ...

That is where Ken Kesey — author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and hero of a generation that vowed to drop out and tune in with the help of LSD — intended it to stay after firing ...