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Gordon Liddy, John Mitchell, J. Edgar Hoover and other cynical flouters of the democratic process. Would you have let men like these keep you in prison for life for your ideas? The escape was spectacular: Leary hoisted himself to a rooftop and up a telephone pole, shimmied along a cable across the prison yard and over barbed wire, and dropped to the highway. A clutch of helpers, described by Leary and others as members of the ultra-leftist Weathermen but never conclusively identified, spirited him to Algeria, where, oddly, he was placed under the watch of ex-patriot Eldridge Cleaver.

He was captured there, and, in , returned to the United States. Jerry Brown. Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds. Leary request that his ashes be be blasted into outer space.

The Spokesman-Review Newspaper Local journalism is essential. Leary was more of a curiosity, an object of nostalgia for the recent past. People magazine did a photo feature on him. He began lecturing again and joined a number of ventures, including developing a self-analysis software program called Mind Mirror. But Leary rarely stuck with projects long enough to complete them. Settling in Beverly Hills in the late s, Leary made numerous friends in the filmmaking community and soon became a fixture at Hollywood parties and premieres.

He had bit parts in several minor movies. More successful was a debating tour with his former nemesis Liddy. His personal life was marked by tragedy and broken relationships. In , his daughter, Susan, 42, was in custody at the Sybil Brand Institute, having been found mentally unfit to stand trial for shooting her sleeping boyfriend. That year, she used her shoelaces to hang herself from the bars of her cell.

In January , Leary called his closest friends to tell them he had cancer. Leary met several months ago with his son, Jack, whom he had not seen in several years. But the reunion was brief. People close to both of them say Jack felt he had been deserted by his father at a critical time in his life. In his final year, Leary surrounded himself mostly with people under 30, several of whom were paid a salary to attend to his needs and work on a World Wide Web site on the Internet that would keep his legacy alive.

He raised money by charging fees to some of the magazines and video outfits that came to interview him. I was worried I would wake up in 50 years surrounded by people with clipboards. He left The Times in All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events.

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