Steve Allen noodles on the piano while begging Kerouac
to pardon him for asking some "square questions" in this
video of a 1959 interview. The brief interview is followed
by Kerouac reading an excerpt of On The Road. ("I wrote the
book because we're all gonna die.")

The end of the video shows Allen, many years later, reminiscing
about the interview

This map was found at the Kerouac Corner of a website called www.wordsareimportant.com. Apparently it's from one of Kerouac’s own diaries, shows the itinerary of a trip from July to October 1947, much of which would later serve as the backdrop for ‘On the Road’:

New York City, Chicago, Davenport, Des Moines, North Platte, Cheyenne(DenverCentral City)Laramie, Salt Lake, Reno, San Francisco, Madera, Fresno, Selma, Los Angeles, Prescott, Albuquerque, Dalhart, Kansas City, St Louis, Indianapolis, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, New York City