♪ >> ken kesey took classes of writing at stanford university, and he writes the great novel "one flewas at stanford, i was given the opportunity to go to the stanford hospital and take part in the lsd experiments. >> kesey had volunteered to do tests for lsd, a government-sponsored test. >> lsd was isolated in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. >> do you feel happy? >> yes. >> you have tears in your eyes. >> oh. >> is that a beautiful experience would you say? >> i would say yes. >> some people think it's when kesey discovers lsd that the counterculture in california is born, because more and more people then want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he becomes a promoter of it. ♪ >> kesey created a drug commune at la honda, which is an hour from san francisco. great artists love smashing traditions, and at his best, kesey was doing that. everybody would have this communal lsd trip together. tom wolf would write "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. i'd wonder what happened. they thought they were doing me

you have the electric kool—aid acid test, in on the bus with ken kesey and the pranksters, and i metave known anything about him that he was there with allen ginsberg, timothy leary, the whole thing. this one book and there is tom wolfe and whenever we talk about the 1960s we go back to these references and if you go back and realise you are talking about tom wolfe. in the 1970s he broke this fantastic essay, the me decade which she links together with everything and he said what he wa nted everything and he said what he wanted to do given a choice when it first began a journalist, do politics as all the posh guys wanted to do, but he said no i'm going to do all the things that people do not write about, see those little details. and write the beginning of this me decade this great essay that tells you all about the me generation, the religious cult scene, linking jimmy carter to meditation and everything. and he said the lowest paid worker in america in the mid—19 70s and about $8,000, that was roughly the same amount in and buy a columnist on the uk newspaper and he said you must r