Category Archives: History

Rex Morgan Clippings from 1966

August 21, 2011 – 4:34 pm

From the archives of Michael Horowitz. Michael sez: “1966 was the year LSD was banned, Millbrook was raided, and Tim was sentenced to 30 years for the Laredo border bust. Here is evidence that even the comics were on his case. These two strips are all I have of the story that went on at [...]

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Timothy Leary Speaking Engagement Ad – 1969 Village Voice

August 10, 2011 – 9:29 am

The Electric Circus (formerly the Dom) was THE venue of the hip heads of the Lower East Side during the mid to late 1960s. Lots of  60′s rock bands played there. Andy Warhol staged his Exploding Plastic Inevitable there. The Velvet Underground was, for a time, the house band. Tim headlined three nights there in [...]

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1970′s News Clipping of Rosemary’s “Conspire-In Blowout”

July 28, 2011 – 5:38 pm

Michael Horowitz thought we might enjoy a few tidbits from his own personal archives… This picture on the left was published on March 25, 1970. We’re not sure what the publication was. From Michael: “Rosemary did a benefit for Tim after his bail was taken away in an Orange County courtroom. Tim was jailed, and [...]

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Dr. Timothy Leary’s “Declaration of Evolution” – In English and Persian

June 25, 2009 – 11:13 am

In light of what’s been going on in Iran this past week, we thought this Persian Google translation of Dr. Leary’s “Declaration of Evolution” was rather timely. If there’s any problem with the url above, try this one. (non-tinyurl version) Here’s a link to the english version, the text of which we will also republish [...]

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Interview with Joi Ito – Meeting Tim, Collaborating with Tim, Being Tim’s Godson

March 4, 2009 – 6:46 pm

Q: In this video, he calls you his godson? What’s the story behind that? A: I met Tim on the evening of my birthday when I was turning 24 in Tokyo, in Roppongi, through a mutual friend, David Kubiak. I remember, because I asked him about the number “23″ and the whole Cosmic Trigger book [...]

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Video: Tim Explains How He’ll Use His Online Archives In The Future

March 1, 2009 – 8:24 pm

In the process of creating our new Donate page, we came across this nice clip of Tim from late 1995/early 1996, where explains how he’ll be able to search online through his own archives in the future, after he has been reanimated. When this video was recorded, Tim was planning on having his head cryonically [...]

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How Tim’s “Just Say KNOW” Campaign and KnoWare Software Company Were Born

February 5, 2009 – 4:29 pm

This just in from our first guest blogger, Vicki Marshall. Vicki and her business partner, Ron Lawrence, collaborated with Tim on numerous publishing and software projects over the years. It was back in the daze of Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign – and the media coverage was all pervasive. Ever since I was a [...]

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