Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The Merry Pranksters. The Electric Koolaid Acid Test. Allen Ginsberg. Neal Cassady. Timothy Leary. These are the names that conjure up the 1960’s – for ...

GRANTS PASS, ORE. - Ken Kesey, whose LSD-fueled bus ride became a symbol of the psychedelic 1960s after he won fame as a novelist with "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," died Saturday morning. He was ...

The subject of Magic Trip is the LSD-powered, cross-country road movie orchestrated by novelist Ken Kesey in the summer of '64. More than a footnote but less than a chapter in American cultural ...

Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney is among the most prolific filmmakers working, and tomorrow he unveils his sixth film since the start of 2010, "Magic Trip," co-directed by longtime ...

A new documentary rescues old footage from Ken Kesey’s cross-country bus trip in 1964, through a miracle of digital restoration and editing. Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood’s documentary “Magic Trip” ...

Forty-seven years after his cross-country odyssey with Neal Cassady and the Merry Pranksters in a psychedelically painted school bus, and 10 years after his death, Ken Kesey has finally emerged as the ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Dreams of getting author Ken Kesey's original psychedelic bus, Furthur, back on the road again have hit a pothole. The Kesey family is looking for a new sponsor to finance ...

Doc is like a hipster's King Tut's tomb, and History Films' involvement assures cable exposure. As explained early on in “Magic Trip,” Kesey and his crew decided to film their journey — begun on the ...

There is no period in American history as overblown as the 1960s. Stories about the era are told in hushed, reverent tones, as if the participants were mythic figures, not people. Luckily, directors ...

The Pranksters' long-distance bus journey was famously written up by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, even though Wolfe never set foot on the bus, but Kesey's own masterplan called for ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.