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Today in psychedelic history (04/26) * 2
    #14353638 - 04/26/11 05:43 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

  • 1935:  Rosemary Woodruff Leary is born




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Rosemary Woodruff -- LSD guru's ex-wife
February 09, 2002|By Susan Sward, Chronicle Staff Writer

Rosemary Woodruff, former wife of the late psychedelic guru Timothy Leary,

died Thursday in her home in Aptos at age 66.

Surrounded by friends, Ms. Woodruff died of complications from a heart attack she suffered a week earlier.

Born April 26, 1935, in St. Louis, she grew up in that city and dropped out of high school to marry an Air Force officer when she was 17. That marriage ended quickly, and she moved to New York in the 1950s.

She told friends later that it was there that she received her real education, living in the bohemian community of lower Manhattan that was populated by jazz musicians and artists.

In 1965, she met Leary, a former Harvard University psychology professor who was the host of weekend events where participants took LSD at a country estate in Millbrook, N.Y. Leary -- who coined the oft-quoted phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out" -- had been dismissed from the Harvard faculty in the early 1960s for his experiments with drugs.
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Ms. Woodruff moved in with Leary and was co-host of the events, which were attended by numerous celebrities, psychologist R.D. Laing, actor Peter Fonda and artist Saul Steinberg. She became the third of Leary's four wives in 1967 at an event that the New York Times reported was directed by Ted Markland of "Bonanza."

Kate Coleman, a Berkeley author who wrote a recent profile of Ms. Woodruff, said, "Rosemary was known by the nickname 'Ro.' She was the epitome of hip and beauty. She knew everyone -- Yoko Ono and John Lennon. She kept in touch with Huxley when he was in L.A."

Coleman said Ms. Woodruff told her that she helped her husband escape in 1970 from a California state prison where he was serving a 10-year sentence for a marijuana conviction.

Ms. Woodruff told Coleman that she raised the funds that financed the escape, in which Leary made his way to a prison roof, traversed the prison grounds on a cable and then jumped to his freedom on a road outside the prison.

The Weathermen, a revolutionary youth group, helped Leary pull off the escape,

Coleman said.

The couple then made their way to Algeria, where they were given sanctuary for a while by Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver in his compound there.

The couple's marriage broke apart in the mid-1970s, and Ms. Woodruff traveled throughout Europe and Latin America before "living underground in Cape Cod for 14 years" because she still faced a pending drug charge in Laguna Beach and her former husband had told the FBI about her role in his escape, Coleman said. Leary himself was captured by authorities in Afghanistan in 1973 and remained in prison in California until he was released by Gov. Jerry Brown in 1976.

In 1994, authorities in Orange County dropped charges against Ms. Woodruff, and she surfaced in Half Moon Bay, where she ran a bed-and-breakfast establishment for five years until her health failed, Coleman said. Ms. Woodruff then moved to Aptos and gave some guest lectures at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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Leary died in 1996 of prostate cancer at the age of 75. In Leary's last months of life, Ms. Woodruff and her former husband were reconciled and she helped care for him, Coleman said.

Friends said plans have not yet been finalized for a memorial service.


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  • 1973:  Nick Sand is indicted and Tim Scully surrenders




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April 20, 1973 Billy Hitchcock and Tim Scully met in Novato. Billy Hitchcock told Tim Scully about the upcoming indictment. Billy Hitchcock agreed to loan Tim Scully $10,000 to use either to run or for legal fees. Tim Scully decided to stay. (old chronology)

April 26, 1973 the original indictment was filed in US v Sand; Tim Scully voluntarily surrendered on that day and was released on his own recognizance ($25,000 pr bond) the same day. Case CR 73-0306 SC, Judge Sam Conti presiding.


(from Tim Scully)









  • 2007:  David Solomon dies




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(David Solomon dies)


Born in 1925 in California, Solomon came of age at the same time as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady. Unlike the Beats, Solomon served in World War II and suffered tremendous loss. His two brothers were killed in bombing runs over Germany, and like Private Ryan, Solomon was pulled from the front lines as the only surviving son in his family. Solomon was discharged in 1946 and took advantage of the GI Bill to attend college. He received a BA from Washington Square College of New York University, but his real education was earned in combat in Europe, in the jazz clubs of New York, in the bohemian atmosphere of Greenwich Village, and in the drug culture of Washington Square. Attempting to come to terms with the Bomb, traumatized by their war experience, and fascinated with African-American and drug culture, young men like Solomon became the hipsters and White Negroes represented by the early Beats and belatedly described by Norman Mailer in his 1957 essay in Dissent.

Solomon married and had two children, but he remained in the Village, refusing to move out to the Levittowns that sprang up like mushrooms around New York City. By the mid-1950s, Solomon was an assistant editor at Esquire. His tenure there lasted until 1960, and he left just before the magazine’s renaissance under the editorial leadership of Harold Hayes who beat out such young lions as Clay Felker and Ralph Ginzburg for the position. Hayes, Felker, and Ginzburg would change mainstream magazine publishing and challenge the rules of the game in the 1960s. Solomon lacked their editorial genius but, in his own way, he would make his mark on the profession by incorporating his hipster sensibility into the mainstream press. Solomon was the White Negro as editor.

While at Esquire, Solomon contacted Aldous Huxley about revising Huxley’s “The History of Tension” article in light of another piece, “Drugs that Shape Men’s Minds,” which Huxley had published in The Saturday Evening Post. The Esquire essay was to have been titled “The Coming Defeat of Tension” and would have reflected Huxley’s belief that “present and yet to be developed pharmacological agents will bring about a religious and ethical revolution.” Huxley’s writings on drugs, notably The Doors of Perception, were read as sacred texts for psychedelic adventurers of the 1960s. It was while researching Huxley that Solomon became an early psychedelic enthusiast. The revised article never appeared in Esquire, but Solomon took Huxley as his guru and soldiered on in a hands-on exploration of psychedelics and their history. In time, Solomon’s knowledge of drugs and drug culture became legendary.

Solomon would soon find his niche and succeed as a salesman of drug culture on multiple levels. On the other hand, Clark was a young poet, who became poetry editor in the mid-1960s, and completely revitalized the Review, making it a major outlet for new poetry. He did this by including his friends — Ted Berrigan and other New York poets — as well as incorporating these poets’ heroes: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kerouac. Issue 35 includes Robin Blaser, Ed Dorn, Ron Padgett, Tom Pickard, and Aram Saroyan — cutting-edge choices to be sure. The issue also features an interview with Dizzy Gillespie. It is as if Solomon edited a little mag. For me, the period of Clark’s editorship was the high-water mark of the Paris Review.

While Solomon was largely unsuccessful in magazine publishing, his serious and evangelical take on drugs proved perfect for mainstream book publishers. From 1964 to 1975, Solomon edited a series of anthologies that provided intellectual, philosophical, medical, and historical takes on various drugs from LSD to marijuana to cocaine. The titles include LSD: The Consciousness-Expanding Drug (1964), The Marijuana Papers (1966), Drugs and Sexuality (1973) and The Coca Leaf and Cocaine Papers (1975). He created a forum of educated and academic discussion for much mythologized subjects. For a public fascinated but largely uneducated about drugs, these anthologies proved irresistible and became best sellers. The books were available, in some cases, in both hardcover and paperback. They highlight Solomon’s skill in marketing psychedelics and drug culture to mainstream audiences.

Burroughs no doubt appreciated the cash. In a February 5, 1962 letter on Avon stationery, Solomon writes Burroughs proposing an anthology in order to get Burroughs some money. Quite possibly the resulting anthology was the one on LSD. Burroughs got paid $100 for reprint rights to “Points of Distinction Between Sedative and Consciousness Expanding Drugs” for the LSD anthology eventually published by Putnam. Avon was part of the book division of The Hearst Corporation, acquired by Hearst in 1959. Avon made its name publishing comic books and pulp paperbacks. The imprint was far from literary and dealt strictly with topics with mass appeal. Solomon was something of a hipster spy. Solomon writes, “Working for Hearst a morbid kick…unless I learn to turn on with formaldehyde, I’m cooked.” The letter is redacted, and I like to think the “informal postal exchange” referred to a drug exchange with Allen Ginsberg undertaken in the belly of the publishing beast.

Huxley was the guiding light of the LSD anthology and the book is dedicated to him: “guru extraordinaire, whose words first beckoned me through the doors of perception.” Timothy Leary wrote the introduction. It is a serious treatment of LSD with the table of contents loaded with MDs and PhDs. Burroughs stands out with his lack of an advanced degree, but he belongs. He was a Master Addict of Dangerous Drugs, after all. The anthology was aimed to introduce philosophical and medical evidence in support of the benefits of LSD at a time when the drug was coming under fire by the police, government, and mainstream media. The last paragraph to Solomon’s editor’s note could have served as a Bill of Rights for a psychedelic nation: “Moreover, I believe that the astonishing human brain is man’s most inalienable possession, his intellectual birthright. No person or institution has the moral right to muffle or inhibit its development. No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate and fix the levels of consciousness to which men aspire, whether those states are induced pharmacologically or otherwise. Die gedanken sind frei.”

a Bill of Rights for a psychedelic nation: “Moreover, I believe that the astonishing human brain is man’s most inalienable possession, his intellectual birthright. No person or institution has the moral right to muffle or inhibit its development. No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate and fix the levels of consciousness to which men aspire, whether those states are induced pharmacologically or otherwise. Die gedanken sind frei.”

In 1966, Solomon and his family moved to Mallorca, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean that was dominated by the presence of Robert Graves. Graves’s literary career roughly paralleled that of Aldous Huxley. Both were British modernists who later in life transformed into psychedelic pioneers. Graves became particularly fascinated with mushroom cults, and such interests filtered into his increasingly mystical worldview, developed in Food For Centaurs (1960) and elsewhere. Solomon insinuated himself into the literary and drug culture of Mallorca but just as quickly found himself on the wrong end of the law. Forced to leave the island, Solomon moved to England and settled in the intellectual confines of Cambridge, which was in throes of the psychedelic revolution. Given his vast knowledge of drugs and England’s cultural climate at the time, Solomon, like Huxley and Graves, found himself considered a guru, a position he came to relish.

At this point, Solomon’s interest in drugs reached a new, and ultimately disastrous, level. Like many proponents of psychedelics, Solomon was well situated to become involved in drug manufacturing and trafficking. Timothy Leary followed a similar path. For example, Leary’s International Foundation for Internal Freedom became aligned with The Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Billy Hitchcock, a young heir to a vast fortune and a believer in Leary’s philosophies, financed Leary’s LSD headquarters in Millbrook, a place of introspection and self-discovery. But the potential for profit was too great for Hitchcock and others to ignore and what started as a spiritual exploration mutated into a money-making enterprise and a criminal organization. Eventually, Hitchcock became the financier for much of the LSD underground.

Solomon, along with two refugees from Millbrook, came up with the idea of liquefying the active ingredient of marijuana, THC, in order to allow mass distribution and easier transportation. At the time (1968), THC was legal in Great Britain. Perhaps Solomon’s ambition was to spread the drug in order to advance the psychedelic revolution, but his associates were less idealistic. Eventually, Solomon’s utopian vision would prove susceptible to corruption as well.

Solomon searched around Cambridge for a chemist with the scientific knowledge he required for the THC project and met Dick Kemp through Crick. Kemp was drawn to Solomon’s circle because of Crick’s presence. Crick convinced Kemp of LSD’s value to society.

Like Augustus Owsley and Tim Scully before him, Kemp bought into the idea of a psychedelic revolution and became a drug chemist on an international scale. The ability to liquefy THC eluded Solomon and Kemp, but Solomon with his drug connections was able to acquire large quantities of Ergotamine Tartrate, which is the base material for the manufacture of LSD. Thus Solomon was no longer just a drug enthusiast; he was a major player in an international drug enterprise.

Yet Solomon remained something of a schlemiel. As in his career as a magazine editor, his ideas and his ambition overreached his abilities. Solomon may have been well-versed in drug knowledge and culture, he may have talked the talk, but he could not walk the walk. He was clearly out of his league in the area of drug manufacture. The LSD whose production he oversaw was usually of poor quality and often cut into diluted doses. In one case, Solomon attempted to create his own LSD capsules and succeeded in dosing himself with 1000 mics of acid, which left him with the trip of his life and bedridden for nearly a week. Solomon was far from a criminal mastermind.

Solomon’s drug partners realized his incompetence and attempted to distance themselves from him. In addition, Solomon bragged of his involvement in the ring to anyone who would listen. The path to eventual disaster was well paved and Solomon raced downhill to his fate. Despite Solomon’s lack of street smarts, he was well connected with drug suppliers. Unfortunately for his drug associates, Solomon was a necessary evil.

To make a long story short, the dominoes began to fall as members of the ring were arrested on unrelated drug and smuggling charges and the extent of its activities became clear. Gerry Thomas, a partner of Solomon’s in the THC scheme, was arrested in Canada and due to a feud with Solomon supplied the information that led to the investigation of The Micro Dot Gang, which included the British LSD group co-founded by Solomon and The Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Once again, Solomon proved the weak link in the drug ring.

To make a long story short, the dominoes began to fall as members of the ring were arrested on unrelated drug and smuggling charges and the extent of its activities became clear. Gerry Thomas, a partner of Solomon’s in the THC scheme, was arrested in Canada and due to a feud with Solomon supplied the information that led to the investigation of The Micro Dot Gang, which included the British LSD group co-founded by Solomon and The Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Once again, Solomon proved the weak link in the drug ring.

Inspector Dick Lee, a figure straight out of a William Burroughs novel, spearheaded Operation Julie to take down the LSD empire. Lee’s organization was the culmination of over a decade of harassment and demonization of the LSD counterculture. Operation Julie demonstrated the possibilities of international police cooperation, adequate funding, fully developed informant and undercover networks, and hi-tech surveillance. Narcs and wire/phone tapping were standard courses of business for this beefed up, and increasingly, well-funded police bureaucracy. The blueprint for the War on Drugs in the 1980s was set into action. The policies of fear, misinformation, and intolerance pursued by the government and police created a poisonous atmosphere ripe for generating a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is a great example of the importance of set and setting. In part, such policies changed what began as an exploration of freedom, peace, and love into a culture of paranoia and violence. The Weathermen, Charles Manson, and Altamont also demonstrate this shift. On another level, the LSD trade mutated from a loose community of psychedelic idealists to an international network of psychedelic capitalists. This is indicative of a similar evolution in the counterculture generally, both in the 1960s where the counterculture quickly became co-opted by the consumer culture, and in the neoconservative revolution of the 1980s, where yesteryear’s hippies became the Me Decade’s Gordon Geckos. To a certain extent, David Solomon can be viewed as a case study in such trends.

Allen Ginsberg on David Solomon, International Times, 1980Eventually Solomon was arrested and sentenced to ten years in jail. In 1980 in the International Times, Allen Ginsberg wrote an article on Solomon. This was the Frivolous Summer Issue that also featured articles on American Indian genocide, Baader Meinhof, and the Cannabis Conference. IT appeared in fits and starts over the coming years, but the Frivolous Summer tabloid was effectively the swan song for this long-running underground paper that began during the Summer of Love in 1966. The incarceration of Solomon and his LSD cohorts likewise signaled the end of an era. Reagan and Thatcher were soon in office and the idealism and accomplishments of the 1960s, already disillusioned and crumbling, were demonized and dismantled even further. Solomon served a partial sentence until 1983 when he returned to New York City and the jazz clubs where he had received his first tastes of the drug culture that would eventually consume and destroy him.

Solomon died in April 2007 at the age of 81. His obituary in The Villager passed over his role in Operation Julie and instead focused on his editorial work with Esquire, Metronome. and Playboy. Yet Solomon’s role in the British LSD Group proves more interesting and important than his editorial work. Like the rise and fall of Timothy Leary, the story of David Solomon shows how the seductive power of the psychedelic revolution and the intrusive fear tactics of governmental and police bureaucracies can corrupt an idealistic vision of a better, freer world into a nightmare of criminal activity fueled by paranoia, delusions of grandeur, and blind ambition. Solomon, like Leary, traded his dreams of a new society for power and wealth. At their cores, both men were feckless squares who just wanted to be accepted by a community and culture they were fascinated with but were really outside of. The desire to Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out was mainly a need to Fit In. In this effort, they got wrapped up in forces beyond their imagination and control.

The psychedelic revolution was, and is, an inspired act of hubris. Even gurus such as Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, William Burroughs, and David Solomon had trouble harnessing their power. Ultimately such drugs are stronger than humans, and a society based on psychedelic exploration and widespread permissiveness seems to me doomed to failure. We are a Faustian species, but we cannot handle psychedelics’ truths. Possibly the weak link is more than an atmosphere of misconceptions and mishandled policy but is instead actually written into our DNA. We are not gods; we cannot feed on ambrosia. In his exploration of such drugs, David Solomon, like many of the true believers of the psychedelic era, bit off much more than he could chew.


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (04/26) [Re: Learyfan]
    #14353807 - 04/26/11 07:00 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I just finished reading "Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest To Spread Peace, Love and Acid To The World" by Nicholas Schou and Rosemary is mentioned in the book quite a few times.

Seems she left Leary over his growing egomaniac tendencies. I don't know if it was just the author of the book and the way he chose to present Leary (maybe he had some personal disdain for the man) but Tim did seem to suffer from an over inflated ego.


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (04/26) [Re: gerryjarcia]
    #14353836 - 04/26/11 07:09 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

He just went about spreading the word about psychs all wrong. He said they were for everyone, said they turned him into God, and a whole bunch of other crazy stuff. They were in the middle of Vietnam war, and he was telling people to not care about that. That was really scary then.

He should've presented himself differently. After a while, it wasn't about psychedelic research. It was about getting high and enjoying life.

My main goal in life right now is to get high and enjoy every second of this life. I don't really have anything else I want to do for now, just because I'm young and interested in :trippinballs:. Other people don't agree though. However, they might agree with psychedelics used to help people with mental issues, as its proven to do.

TL:DR He (Leary) came off crazy. He lost his composure, his professionalism.


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (04/26) [Re: Joolz] * 1
    #14353861 - 04/26/11 07:19 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Joolz said:
He just went about spreading the word about psychs all wrong. He said they were for everyone, said they turned him into God, and a whole bunch of other crazy stuff. They were in the middle of Vietnam war, and he was telling people to not care about that. That was really scary then.

He should've presented himself differently. After a while, it wasn't about psychedelic research. It was about getting high and enjoying life.

My main goal in life right now is to get high and enjoy every second of this life. I don't really have anything else I want to do for now, just because I'm young and interested in :trippinballs:. Other people don't agree though. However, they might agree with psychedelics used to help people with mental issues, as its proven to do.

TL:DR He (Leary) came off crazy. He lost his composure, his professionalism.




the interesting thing when looking back at the most scrutinized characters from the 60's was their extremism which was most often born out of naivety and lack of perspective.

the more i learn about the 60's the more i realize that all the decades in between now and then have been nothing but one giant reaction to that period. the entire "war on drugs", the rise of the religious reich, the enduring and bombastic attitudes towards anyone who chooses to live a simpler, more balanced, "hippie" life style.

it's like so much of America is still stuck in the 50's and many people would like to pretend the 60's never happened.


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (04/26) [Re: gerryjarcia] * 1
    #14354149 - 04/26/11 09:13 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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it's like so much of America is still stuck in the 50's and many people would like to pretend the 60's never happened.




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Re: Today in psychedelic history (04/26) [Re: fatppl12] * 1
    #16141145 - 04/26/12 05:22 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

David Solomon - five years gone today.  R.I.P.

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (04/26) [Re: Learyfan] * 2
    #16141336 - 04/26/12 06:58 AM (11 years, 9 months ago)

How did david solomon die? "Solomon served a partial sentence until 1983 when he returned to New York City and the jazz clubs where he had received his first tastes of the drug culture that would eventually consume and destroy him." From what I gathered from the article he died from drugs, maybe opiates?


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    #16143887 - 04/26/12 06:58 PM (11 years, 9 months ago)

I have no idea if he got into opiates or not.  I think by destroy they mean that he started making LSD and THC and got busted and did time in jail and then didn't continue being an author.  But then again, I don't know.  Information on David Solomon is spotty at best. 

















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    #18170481 - 04/26/13 05:46 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

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    #19902571 - 04/26/14 10:15 AM (9 years, 9 months ago)

Hey Dan, David Solomon was friends with William S. Burroughs.  Not saying that that by ANY means shows evidence of him being a heroin fiend.  But it's a possible clue.  Maybe.

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    #21598660 - 04/26/15 10:57 AM (8 years, 9 months ago)

Happy 80th Birthday Rosemary Woodruff Leary!

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    #24272745 - 04/26/17 10:00 AM (6 years, 9 months ago)

10th anniversary of the death of David Solomon today. 













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    #25166190 - 04/26/18 05:54 AM (5 years, 9 months ago)

45th anniversary of Tim Scully surrendering to authorities.











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    #26629390 - 04/26/20 10:10 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

Today would have been Rosemary Woodruff Leary's 85th birthday!  :cheers:

Celebrate by pre-ordering her book Psychedelic Refugee The League for Spiritual Discovery, the 1960s Cultural Revolution, and 23 Years on the Run!  Looks like it comes out ten months from now? 



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Psychedelic Refugee
The League for Spiritual Discovery, the 1960s Cultural Revolution, and 23 Years on the Run
By Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Edited by David Phillips


About The Book


A memoir by one of the original female psychedelic pioneers of the 1960s

• Shares Rosemary’s early experimentation with psychedelics in the 1950s, her development through the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s, and her involvement, at first exciting but then heartbreaking, with Dr. Timothy Leary

• Describes her LSD trips with Leary, their time at the famous Millbrook estate, their experiences as fugitives abroad, including their captivity by the Black Panthers in Algeria, and Rosemary’s years on the run after she and Timothy separated

One of the original female psychedelic pioneers, Rosemary Woodruff Leary (1935-2002) began her psychedelic journey long before her relationship with Dr. Timothy Leary. In the 1950s, she moved to New York City where she became part of the city’s most advanced music, art, and literary circles and expanded her consciousness with psilocybin mushrooms and peyote. In 1964 she met two former Harvard professors who were experimenting with LSD, Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner, who invited her to join them at the Millbrook estate in upstate New York. Once at Millbrook, Rosemary went on to become the wife--and accomplice--of the man Richard Nixon called “the most dangerous man in America.”

In this intimate memoir, Rosemary describes her LSD experiences and insights, her decades as a fugitive hiding both abroad and underground in America, and her encounters with many leaders of the cultural and psychedelic milieu of the 1960s. Compiled from Rosemary’s own letters and autobiographical writings archived among her papers at the New York Public Library, the memoir details Rosemary’s imprisonment for contempt of court, the Millbrook raid by G. Gordon Liddy, the tours with Timothy before his own arrest and imprisonment, and their time in exile following his sensational escape from a California prison. She describes their surreal and frightening captivity by the Black Panther Party in Algeria and their experiences as fugitives in Switzerland. She recounts her adventures and fears as a fugitive on five continents after her separation from Timothy in 1971.

While most accounts of the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s have been told by men, with this memoir we can now experience these events from the perspective of a woman who was at the center of the seismic cultural changes of that time.


About The Author

Rosemary Woodruff Leary

Rosemary Woodruff Leary (1935-2002) was one of the great female psychedelic pioneers of the 1960s. She met Dr. Timothy Leary in 1964, becoming his psychonaut partner at the Millbrook estate and later his wife. After Timothy’s prison break in 1970, Rosemary fled with him to Algeria, beginning a years-long fugitive journey across four continents and nearly 25 years of life underground.













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    #27282212 - 04/26/21 04:06 AM (2 years, 9 months ago)

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    #27282660 - 04/26/21 12:26 PM (2 years, 8 months ago)

It's always interesting seeing Ronald Stark in those names with the arrest records, considering he was a government deep undercover operative!  Like he was deep!  Apparently he helped them secure the ergotamine tartate they needed to make LSD - he has a crazy story you can read about.  Faked his death and everything in Italy!


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I don't remember the part about him faking his own death. I'd like to hear more about that. Anyway, 15th anniversary of the death of David Solomon today. 








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I don't remember the part about him faking his own death. I'd like to hear more about that. Anyway, 15th anniversary of the death of David Solomon today. 











Well they claimed he died and the body that had the autopsy done attached to his name and death certificate didn't really match up with him.. just sort of resembled him.  This also occurred when he had his biggest mafia connections as well too.

So I, and other journalists, personally believe he faked his death, had a body double killed and put in his place, so he could move on in secret with his life and operations much easier.  He had not been very... quiet before in his career.


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    #28295703 - 04/26/23 05:11 AM (9 months, 1 hour ago)

It sounds like this theory comes from one book. I definitely don't believe it because one author said it. I haven't read the book, but I doubt they have irrefutable evidence that Stark faked his own death.

But anyway, today is the 50th anniversary of Nick Sand being indicted and Tim Scully surrendering.








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