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Jan 8, 2024 · Left: Neal Cassady sitting in the upstairs parlor at the Grateful Dead’s home at 710 Ashbury in San Francisco, CA in June of 1967. Cassady had already become a legendary beat icon when Jack Kerouac recreated Cassady as Dean Moriaty in his groundbreaking novel “On The Road.” Right: Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane in Fall of 1967.
Heart Beat: Directed by John Byrum. With Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard, Ray Sharkey. The life and friendship among the icons of the Beat Generation: Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady, and Jack Kerouac.
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- Drama
- John Byrum
- 1980-09-24
Hicks' death scene on the railroad tracks at the film's conclusion is directly based on Cassady's death along a railroad track outside of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in 1968.
Neal Cassady never lived to see 1969. He died sometime on the night of February 3/4, 1968, after attending a wedding party in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He imbibed the alcoholic beverage pulque at the wedding, which may have contributed to his death as he was taking the barbiturate Seconal that day.
- Writer, Soundtrack
- February 8, 1926
- Neal Cassady
- February 4, 1968
Feb 4, 2019 · In the morning, he was found in a coma by the tracks, reportedly by Anton Black, later a professor at El Paso Community College, who carried Cassady over his shoulders to the local post office building. Cassady was then transported to the closest hospital where he died a few hours later on February 4, four days short of his 42nd birthday.
Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lifetime, but exerted considerable intellectual and stylistic influence through his conversation and ...
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Mar 11, 2022 · “The time has come for me to write a full confession of my life to you,” Jack Kerouac typed thunderously to Neal Cassady in December 1950, in the first of a sequence of massive,...
