I drove 7000 miles to tell this story....

"Who Owns Jack Kerouac?" is the story of the Kerouac Estate Controversy, the battle waged by Jan Kerouac and Gerald Nicosia to seize control of Jack Kerouac's multi-million dollar archives from the Sampas family of Lowell, Massachusetts.

In the fight, Jan Kerouac, Jack's abandoned daughter, was destroyed.

Today, Paul Blake, Jr, the last surviving member of the direct Kerouac bloodline, continues the battle to gain ownership of his uncle's estate. Paul lives homeless in northern California.

Jack Kerouac was the most famous and influential author and cultural icon of 1950s America. His celebrated novel "On the Road" is translated into 47 different languages and has been read by an estimated 70 million people around the world. He is celebrated today by people such as Ron Whitehead, probably America's greatest living poet, and veteran journalist Al Aronowitz, the first columnist to take Kerouac seriously as a writer. Both Ron and Al appear in "Who Owns Jack Kerouac"

Francis Ford Coppola is about to begin shooting a film of the novel, with Brad Pitt as Neal Cassady, the man Kerouac immortalized in "On the Road", and Billy Crudup as Jack Kerouac.