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Timothy Leary collection. -- 1961-1967. -- 3 cm of textual records.

Timothy Leary was born 22 October 1920 in Springfield, Massachusetts. In the 1950s and 1960s he taught psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. He was a proponent of the drug culture in the 1960s and experimented with consciousness-altering drugs such as LSD. A prolific author, he wrote an autobiography, Flashbacks (1983). He died on 31 May 1996.

The collection consists of articles by and interviews with Leary.

Title based on contents of the collection.
The collection was acquired in the 1970s.
Finding aid available as part of the collection level description in hard copy and electronically. A listing of the articles is available in hard copy.
There are no access restrictions.
No further accruals are expected.

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Last Reviewed: May 27, 2003
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