Famous Trippers

John F. Kennedy

 

^ doubt that. prove it

 

it's fairly well known... i had forgotten it

 

Thanks for the Adam Lambert mention. As weird as he is, he is interesting, in one interview he was talking about the influence LSD and Burning has had on him, and he is a very intelligent queer.

 

no fuking way

 

Read this



I don't have to prove anything. Besides, I can't, he's dead.

 

From the wikiapedia entry on Mary Pinchot Meyer, the women who supposedly supplied Kennedy;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer

Mary and her two surviving sons remained in the family home. She began painting again in a converted garage studio at the home of her sister Tony and her husband Ben Bradlee. She also started a close relationship with abstract-minimalist painter Kenneth Noland and became friendly with Robert Kennedy, who had purchased his brother's house, Hickory Hill, in 1957. Nina Burleigh in her book A Very Private Woman writes that after the divorce Meyer became "a well-bred ingenue out looking for fun and getting in trouble along the way." "Mary was bad," a friend recalled.

Burleigh claims James Angleton tapped Mary Meyer's telephone after she left her husband. Meanwhile Angleton often visited the family home and took her sons on fishing outings. Mary visited John F. Kennedy at the White House in October 1961 and their relationship became intimate. Mary told Ann and James Truitt she was keeping a diary.

Mary Meyer and John F Kennedy reportedly had "about 30 trysts" and at least one author has claimed she brought marijuana or LSD to almost all of these meetings. In January 1963 Philip Graham disclosed the Kennedy-Meyer affair to a meeting of newspaper editors but his claim was not reported by the news media. Timothy Leary later claimed Mary influenced Kennedy's "views on nuclear disarmament and rapprochement with Cuba." In an interview with Nina Burleigh, Kennedy aide Meyer Feldman said, "I think he might have thought more of her than some of the other women and discussed things that were on his mind, not just social gossip." Burleigh wrote, "Mary might actually have been a force for peace during some of the most frightening years of the cold war..."

Claims by Timothy Leary
In 1983 former Harvard University psychology lecturer Timothy Leary claimed that in the spring of 1962 Meyer, who according to her biographer Nina Burleigh "wore manners and charm like a second skin", told him she was taking part in a plan to avert worldwide nuclear war by convincing powerful male members of the Washington establishment to take mind-altering drugs, which would presumably lead them to conclude that the Cold War was meaningless. According to Leary, Meyer had sought him out for the purpose of learning how to conduct LSD sessions with these powerful men, including, she strongly implied, President John F. Kennedy, who was at that time her lover. According to Leary, Meyer said she had shared in this plan with at least seven other Washington socialite friends who held similar political views and were trying to supply LSD to a small circle of high ranking government officials. Leary also claimed that Meyer had asked him for help while in a state of fear for her own life after the assassination of President Kennedy. (See sections below on Meyer's murder and diary.)

In his biography Flashbacks Leary claimed he had a call from Mary soon after the Kennedy assassination during which she sobbed and said, "They couldn't control him any more. He was changing too fast...They've covered everything up. I gotta come see you. I'm afraid. Be careful." During the summer of 1964 Meyer reportedly told friends she thought someone had gotten into her house while she was not there and later told a friend from Vassar, historian Elizabeth Eisenstein, "she thought she had seen somebody leaving as she walked in."

Meyer's biographer, journalist Nina Burleigh, is the author of articles for The Washington Post, Time Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and New York Magazine as well several other critically acclaimed books. Although Burleigh does not draw a conclusion as to whether Meyer participated in LSD sessions with President Kennedy or other powerful figures, she also does not dismiss Leary's claims out of hand. Burleigh confirms Meyer's own use of LSD, her involvement with Leary during Leary's tenure at Harvard, and that this involvement occurred at the same time as Meyer's intimate association with President Kennedy. Burleigh also states that the timing of Meyer's visits to Leary coincided with the dates of Meyer's known private meetings with Kennedy. Burleigh writes:

Mary's visits to Timothy Leary during the time she was also Kennedy's lover suggest that Kennedy knew more about hallucinogenic drugs than the CIA might have been telling him. No one has ever confirmed that Kennedy tried LSD with Mary. But the timing of her visits to Timothy Leary do coincide with her known private meetings with the president.
It should be noted that LSD was not illegal in the U.S. at that time and that its use to facilitate psychotherapy and artistic endeavors was not uncommon in some of Meyer's social circles.

People tend to forget that LSD was not illegal until 1966, so there would really have been no difference in that respect between him dropping LSD or drinking scotch.

Remember LSD was around for 23 years before being declared illegal. I think we all would be surprised if we knew just how many and who tried it, either in or out of a therapeutic setting.

 

subs

 

Elvis, yea that's right motherfuckin Elvis, as well as Priscilla. From what I hear they did it a few times and enjoyed it, but were wary of what it could be capable of, good and bad so only dosed those few times.

 

Why do you think the government conspired to blow his head off? He saw the horrible flaws of the american political system and was going to try and make a change for the better.

 

(Salvador Dali)
Drugs aren't needed for incredible aesthetics.

 

Okay Okay!

That's good to know. I'm glad that's a part of our nation's history.

 

Not to mention his meth usage.
They even showed that in the movie 13 Days.

 

Steve Jobs the apple dude.

 

— Among the many revelations made by Lady Gaga in her new autobiography is that she almost died taking “bags and bags” of cocaine and LSD at the start of her music career (via Gigwise). The Grammy Award winner also noted that her most “terrifying” trip had her imagining she met Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. Yes, “terrifying.”

"I love all that. I play the Lolapalooza festival in America and actually before anybody knew of me as an underground songwriter and pop musician, I was quite frequently naked and tripping on acid in fields with my friends."

 

I suspect:
David Byrne and Brian Eno

Great Tim Leary / David Byrne interview: http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/leary_timothy/leary_timothy_interview1.shtml

And I'd put money on Conan O'Brien.

 

did anyone say syd barett yet?

 

kinda obvious...his acid trip was even documented

 

I assume Peter Gabriel has tripped.

 

We all know meth is extremely useful in certain situations and I can definitely see its application in JFK's business.