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The World of LSD
Collection StructureFiring Line broadcast records > Episode guide > The World of LSD
Item Title The World of LSD
Guest Leary, Timothy Francis (1920-)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedApril 10, 1967
Description

We all remember Dr. Leary as a proselytizer for LSD; we've mostly forgotten that he had started out as a doctor of clinical psychology and that he had made LSD the basis of a "new religion." On this show, he makes his opening statement before he ever says a word, by appearing not in a business suit but in a flower child get-up-ruffled shirt, no jacket or tie. He argues that WFB is confusing psychedelic drugs, which Dr. Leary says "intensify consciousness," with opiates and alcohol, "something that is an escape, something that takes you away from reality." WFB: "Let's go ahead and agree that LSD seems to be in some particulars different from other opiates or drugs or chemicals, at the same time agreeing that LSD is a departure from the normal world-" TL: "But what do you mean by 'normal world'? You mean Harry Truman! Is that normal?"

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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 50 minutes
FormatMoving Image
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram 053
Record Number80040.53
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