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Saturday, August 30, 2025

Timothy Leary heckled

A footnote to the posting a few days ago about the new movie on the Nova Convention:  Jesse Walker sent along this sound clip, remarking that is is "Notable less for RAW's participation than for the bit of audience jiu-jitsu that Leary pulls off at the beginning." And indeed, Leary copes well with the heckling. 



1 comment:

Brian Dean said...

To my ears, Tim simply continues his comments in his usual good humor, after somebody else addresses the heckler?

I was at a London talk by RAW, early 90s, when he responded directly to a heckler in the most gracious manner I've ever witnessed. I should write about it some time. (It contrasted with a few other times when he ignored heckling).