Ken Kesey & his wife Norma Faye Haxby, ”Faye Kesey”, New York City, November 1985. Junior high school sweethearts, the two married in 1956. Though Faye didn’t join the Merry Pranksters on the famous 1964 cross country Psychedelic Bus Ride with Neal Cassady at the helm, popularized by the “Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test,” the two remained married till Ken passed away in 2001. (the bus trip films were eventually made into a semi coherent movie by Alex Gibney and Alison Ellswood in 2011 “Magic Trip.”) (photo: Allen Ginsberg) .
Ken Kesey was an orderly at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital Mental Health Facility where both he and Allen volunteered for the MKULtra LSD research program in 1959, which turned out to be a CIA Mind Control study. Kesey was writing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” that year, which drew heavily on his experiences at the hospital.
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