Famous Psychics – Jean Dixon
Probably the most famous psychic of our time was the ever popular Jean Dixon. On January 25, 1997 he passed away, but not before leaving a legacy that he will not soon forget.
His most famous prediction, and probably the one that attracted the most attention to psychics in general, was when he predicted that President John F. Kennedy would die in office. It turned out that Kennedy was assassinated while in Dallas, Texas. His real prediction was that a democratic president elected in 1960, a tall young man with blue eyes and brown hair, would die in office. According to Dixon when they interviewed her, she said that she told reporters that the president would be assassinated, but they refused to publish that part.
While she was alive, Dixon was an advisor to many famous celebrities, such as Ronald and Nancy Reagan. In fact, the press constantly harassed Nancy Reagan for relying on astrologers and psychics to set the president’s schedule. Jean Dixon was one of the people he trusted the most until one day he decided that Dixon had lost his powers and decided to align himself with Dixon’s rival, Joan Quigley.
Dixon was also the author of seven books. He wrote his autobiography, as well as dog horoscopes, astrological cookbooks, and several books on psychic phenomena. Dixon was one of the leading believers in ESP and was a well-known member of Washington’s influential high society.
After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, the notoriety that struck Dixon for it prompted political columnist Ruth Montgomery to write a book entitled “A Gift of Prophecy: The Phenomenal Jean Dixon.” This book tells of hundreds of accurate Dixon predictions made over the years. The book was published in 1965 and sold more than three million copies. The publication of this book made Dixon an overnight celebrity and made her in high demand for lectures, eventually prompting her to start her own syndicated horoscope column, which was printed in newspapers around the world.
For some reason, Jean Dixon was the psychic that everyone loved to hate. Year after year, countless people reported that Dixon’s predictions were false and that she had never made one that actually came true, including that of Kennedy’s death. The woman was under constant attack in tabloids across the country. A respected mathematician named John Allen Paulos coined what became known as the “Jean Dixon Effect,” in which people come up with some accurate predictions but conveniently overlook the hundreds of false predictions that never come true.
The truth is that not all of Jean Dixon’s predictions came true. She predicted that World War III would begin in 1958 on some coastal Chinese islands and that union leader Walter Reuther would run for president in 1964 and that the Russians would land the first man on the moon.
Jean Dixon may not always have been accurate with her predictions, but she will always remain one of the most colorful and well-known psychics in history.
