On August 14, 1997, Kesey and his Pranksters attended a Phish concert in Darien Lake, New York. Kesey and the Pranksters appeared onstage with the band and performed a dance-trance-jam session involving several characters from The Wizard of Oz and Frankenstein. [55] At the invitation of Perry Lane neighbor and Stanford psychology graduate student Vic Lovell, Kesey volunteered to take part in what turned out to be a CIA-financed study under the aegis of Project MKULTRA, a highly secret military program, at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital, [25] where he worked as a night aide. [26] The project studied the effects of psychedelic drugs, particularly LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, aMT, and DMT. [3] Kesey wrote many detailed accounts of his experiences with these drugs, both during the study and in the years of private drug use that followed. [ citation needed] Ronald Gregg Billingsley, The Artistry of Ken Kesey. PhD dissertation. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon, 1971. a b "Crash takes second life". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). January 24, 1984. p.A6. Writer's son, Oregon wrestler Jed Kesey, dies of injuries

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Macdonald, Gina, and Andrew Macdonald. "Ken Kesey". Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition (2007): Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. Kesey mainly kept to his home life in Pleasant Hill, preferring to make artistic contributions on the Internet [53] or holding ritualistic revivals in the spirit of the Acid Test. In the Grateful Dead DVD The Closing of Winterland (2003) documenting the New Year's 1978/1979 concert at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco, Kesey is featured in a between-set interview. [54] Kesey, Ken (1984). "Remembering Jed Kesey". Whole Earth Catalogue. Co-Evolutionary Quarterly. Archived from the original on September 18, 2015.Kesey's Garage Sale. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-670-41268-6. OCLC 899072134. A collection of essays On January 23, 1984, Kesey's 20-year-old son Jed, a wrestler for the University of Oregon, suffered severe head injuries on the way to Pullman, Washington, when the team's loaned van crashed after sliding off an icy highway. [44] [45] [15] Two days later at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, he was declared brain dead and his parents gave permission for his organs to be donated. [46] [47] Kesey's second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion—an epic account of the vicissitudes of an Oregon logging family that aspired to the modernist grandeur of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha saga—was a commercial success that polarized critics and readers upon its release in 1964. Kesey regarded it as his magnum opus. [7] And I began to get mad, Senator. I had finally found where the blame must be laid: that the money we are spending for national defense is not defending us from the villains real and near, the awful villains of ignorance, and cancer, and heart disease and highway death. How many school buses could be outfitted with seatbelts with the money spent for one of those 16-inch shells? [48]

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Schmeltzer, Michael (March 7, 1984). "Kesey: An author and activist father". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p.17.a b c d e f g h Baker, Jeff (November 11, 2001). "All times a great artist, Ken Kesey is dead at age 66". The Oregonian. p.A1. M. Gilbert Porter, The Art of Grit: Ken Kesey's Fiction. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1982. Kesey had a football scholarship for his first year, but switched to the University of Oregon wrestling team as a better fit for his build. After posting a .885 winning percentage in the 1956–57 season, he received the Fred Low Scholarship for outstanding Northwest wrestler. In 1957, Kesey was second in his weight class at the Pacific Coast intercollegiate competition. [2] [14] [15] He remains in the top 10 of Oregon Wrestling's all-time winning percentage. [16] [17]