# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-leonard-pickard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:08:00.838Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-leonard-pickard"
name: "William Leonard Pickard"
slug: "william-leonard-pickard"
description: "William Leonard Pickard is one of two people convicted in the largest lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) manufacturing case in history. In 2000, while moving their LSD laboratory across Kansas, Pickard and Clyde Apperson were pulled over while driving a Ryder rental truck and a follow car. The laboratory had been stored near a renovated Atlas-E missile silo near Wamego, Kansas. Gordon Todd Skinner, one of the men intimately involved in the case but not charged due to his cooperation, owned the property where the laboratory equipment was stored."
tagline: "American writer and researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leonardpickard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1945-10-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.761362666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.freeleonardpickard.org"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard"
    title: "William Leonard Pickard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "وليام ليونارد بيكارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard"
    title: "William Leonard Pickard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Пикард, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard"
    title: "William Leonard Pickard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3700208"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump