Continuing our salute to "Magic Trip," the new documentary about Ken Kesey's drug-fueled, 1964 cross-country bus trip with a group he called the Merry Pranksters, we now turn to Ken Kesey himself. Kesey wrote two novels that were very popular in the 1960s: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Sometimes A Great Notion."
At the time, though, he was even better known for being one of the first people to bring the experimental hallucinogen LSD out of the research laboratory and into the counterculture. Kesey and his friends were among the first and most celebrated of the West Coast hippies. In his book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," Tom Wolfe described the escapades of Kesey and the Pranksters as they drove around the country in their Day-Glo school bus.