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May 11, 2010 · Neal Cassady died in the middle of the night alongside the railroad tracks on the outskirts of San Miguel de Allende after leaving a party. It’s been said that he died of exposure, but the cause of death was never quite determined.
Sep 26, 2024 · Heartbeat is based on the autobiographical novel by Carolyn Cassady, the wife of Neal Cassady, a key figure in the Beat movement and a friend of both Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. The film stars Nick Nolte as Neal and Sissy Spacek as Carolyn.
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.
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.”
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.
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Stone based the character of Ray Hicks on Beat writer Neal Cassady, with whom Stone became acquainted through novelist Ken Kesey, a graduate school classmate of Stone's at Stanford University. [ 5 ] 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 ...
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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.
