Neal Cassady

In the morning he was found in a coma by the track reportedly by Dr. In a beachside house just south of Puerto Vallarta Jalisco they were joined by Barbara Wilson and Walter Cox. Although Cassady did not attend Columbia he soon became friends with them and their acquaintances some of whom later became members of the Beat Generation.

Neal Leon Cassady (February 8 1926 – February 4 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s. He served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road.