Here's a link to the appearance Kerouac made on William F. Buckley's show, with Lewis Yablonksy, author of The Hippie Trip, and Ed Sanders, poet, singer, writer, protestor, hippie, (and also, I read that poet Allen Ginsberg was in the audience, though I don't think he's shown on camera) September 3, 1968:

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Hippies
Hoover Institution Library & Archives:
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Some of the books mentioned:

McLuhan for Beginners - W. Terrence Gordon

Lonesome Traveler - Jack Kerouac (and The Hippie Trip - Lewis Yablonsky)

Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin

Beowulf - the Burton Raffels translation (Also, Grendel - John Gardner, and Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton)

The X-Files: Whirlwind - Charles Grant (and The X-Files: Ruins - Kevin Jay Anderson)

Also, my not so in-depth account of randomly spotting the Goodyear Blimp floating over central Kentucky