Timothy Leary's archivist on Leary's prison escape, Algerian exile, and Swiss prison-time
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1HT35)
Lisa Rein writes, "In less than a year, Timothy Leary was imprisoned in three differentcontinents--and it could've been worse. After escaping from a Californiaprison with the help of the Weatherman Underground and the Brotherhood ofEternal Love, he and Rosemary fled Algeriafrom a 'revolutionary bust' by Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, onlyto be jailed in Switzerland when President Nixon personally demanded hisextradition back to the U.S." (more")