LOS ANGELES TIMES, June 1, 1980 

* Oregon State Hospital investigated expose
* 1975 film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Near the bottom of the front page has a  heading: "Criminals Face Reality in Experiment" with lead-in: "LOCALE FOR 'CUCKOO'S NEST'" (SEE IMAGES)
Complete 1st section only with 30 pages, nice condition.

Background: The significance of the 1980 Oregon State Hospital "experiment"—and Dave Smith's sharp-eyed chronicling of it—lies in how it exposed the structural failures of a well-intentioned human services revolution, serving as a bleak blueprint for the future of American public mental health. By using Oregon as a test case for radical deinstitutionalization, policymakers naively assumed that shuttering ward beds and moving psychiatric patients into the community would naturally foster rehabilitation. Instead, Smith’s coverage captured the immediate, tragic reality: the promised safety net of community clinics, housing, and localized funding never materialized. By dismantling the centralized state asylum system without building a functional replacement, this experiment inadvertently triggered the mass transinstitutionalization of vulnerable populations, shifting them from hospital beds directly into homelessness or the criminal justice system. Ultimately, the events of 1980 signaled the definitive end of post-war optimism regarding state-run psychiatric reform, marking the dawn of a fragmented, privatized, and deeply strained modern era of mental health care that American cities are still grappling with today.