Timeline Sunday 4 February 1968

Events on Sunday 4 February 1968 1

• 1926 – 1968 Neal Cassady (1926-1968) Died 4 February 1968, aged 41 The Beat Generation figure who inspired Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" and later drove Ken Kesey's bus Furthur, died after collapsing beside a railroad track in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He was a central real-life character in Beat literary circles rather than a writer himself. His life became emblematic of the era's restless countercultural spirit.