i'm sorry i didn't catch this sooner. i hope you'll see this and pick it up. it's true that mk-ultra messed up a lot of lives and if you listen carefully you'll hear the hurt in jerry and ken through the light heartedness of this interview.
you're very young and might not even know who those men are. the interviewer is tom snyder who worked late night with lots of different kinds of celebrities. i consider him among the best with william murrough, david frost and larry king.
ken kesey was a very important author of the period. he wrote sometimes a great notion and one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
jerry garcia is considered by many to have been the greatest guitar player of our era. he certainly was one of the hardest working and most versatile musicians that ever lived. he played with players from all genres as well as lead the grateful dead. in his career he played more engagements and played for more people than anybody else ever tracked that way.