1960s Timeline

May 28, 1963 - Dr. Richard Alpert (left) denied today that he had broken faith with Harvard University by involving an undergraduate in a...

May 27, 1963 - Harvard University will reportedly dismiss a clinical professor of psychology June 30 for testing so-called...

Apr. 16, 1963 - Dr. Timothy Leary, the Harvard psychologist who believes in the ability of certain drugs to free men’s minds, announced...

Dec. 13, 1962 - Two Harvard psychiatrists charged that statements made by Dean John Munro in an effort to stop the use of “mind drugs”...

Dec. 12, 1962 - Alarmed by the increasing use of a hallucinatory drug, LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), by unqualified persons and at...

Nov. 28, 1962 - A formal warning about the dangers of “mind-distorting drugs” was issued to undergraduates of Harvard College today....