Leary and Alpert Fired from Harvard University

Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert are fired from Harvard.

1963

Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert are fired from their academic positions at Harvard due to controversy generated by their experiments and the Harvard Psilocybin Project. The official reason given for Leary’s firing is he did not live up to his teaching obligations. Alpert was fired to giving psychedelic drugs to undergraduate students.