Editing Ken Kesey (section)

=== Death of son ===
On January 23, 1984, Kesey's 20-year-old son Jed, a wrestler for the [[Oregon Ducks|University of Oregon]], suffered severe head injuries on the way to [[Pullman, Washington]], when the team's loaned van crashed after sliding off an icy highway.<ref name=uowvc>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=16xjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lOEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6275%2C4576554 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |title=UO wrestlers' van crashes, kills one |date=January 22, 1984 |page=1A}}</ref><ref name=scwds>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2axjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lOEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2150%2C4980200 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |title=Second UO wrestler dies |date=January 24, 1984 |page=1A}}</ref><ref name="SpokesmanReviewobit">{{cite news |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |date=January 24, 1984 |title=Crash takes second life |quote=Writer's son, Oregon wrestler Jed Kesey, dies of injuries |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19840124&id=pVdWAAAAIBAJ&pg=2572,4202199 <!--|volume=101st Year |issue=251--> |page=A6 <!----> |location=(Spokane, Washington) <!--|access-date=December 14, 2014-->}}</ref> Two days later at [[MultiCare Deaconess Hospital|Deaconess Hospital]] in [[Spokane, Washington|Spokane]], he was declared brain dead and his parents gave permission for his organs to be donated.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/09/what-world.html |title=Letters of Note: What a world |work=lettersofnote.com |access-date=December 14, 2014 |archive-date=January 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106174940/http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/09/what-world.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=schmeltz>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xFdWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8O4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6228%2C3818171 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |last=Schmeltzer |first=Michael |title=Kesey: An author and activist father |date=March 7, 1984 |page=17}}</ref>

Jed's death deeply affected Kesey, who later called Jed a victim of policies that had starved the team of funding. He wrote to Senator [[Mark Hatfield]]: {{Blockquote|text=And I began to get mad, Senator. I had finally found where the blame must be laid: that the money we are spending for national defense is not defending us from the villains real and near, the awful villains of ignorance, and cancer, and heart disease and highway death. How many school buses could be outfitted with seatbelts with the money spent for one of those 16-inch shells?<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/2042/article/419/remembering.jed.kesey |title=Remembering Jed Kesey |last=Kesey |first=Ken |date=1984 |website=Whole Earth Catalogue |publisher=Co-Evolutionary Quarterly |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918180554/http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/2042/article/419/remembering.jed.kesey|archivedate=18 Sep 2015}}</ref>}}

At a Grateful Dead concert soon after the death of promoter [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]], Kesey delivered a eulogy, mentioning that Graham had donated $1,000 toward a memorial to Jed atop [[Mount Pisgah (Lane County, Oregon)|Mount Pisgah]], near the Kesey home in [[Pleasant Hill, Oregon|Pleasant Hill.]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Grateful Dead |title=Grateful Dead Live at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on 1991-10-31 |date=October 31, 1991 |url=https://archive.org/details/gd91-10-31.sbd.gardner.2897.sbeok.shnf |access-date=July 16, 2017}}. Track 13, starting at about :35.</ref> In 1988, Kesey donated $33,395 toward the purchase of a proper bus for the school's wrestling team<!-- to replace the loaned van that fell off a cliff-->.<ref name=kdbfw>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F-hVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p-EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3495%2C5165972 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |last=Mortenson |first=Eric |title=Keseys donate bus for UO wrestlers |date=February 24, 1988 |page=1B}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19880225&id=D7hPAAAAIBAJ&pg=2381,6211590 |work=Ocala Star-Banner |location=(Florida) |title=Kesey donates bus to son's university |date=February 25, 1988 |page=2A}}</ref>