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Who is Jean Dixon?

Leaving a legacy that won’t soon be forgotten, Jean Dixon passed away on January 25, 1997 as probably the most famous psychic of our time. Predicting that President John F.Kennedy would die in office was the one that gave psychics the most attention and was her most famous premonition. As it turned out, Kennedy was assassinated while in Dallas, Texas but her actual prediction was that a democratic president elected in 1960, a tall young man with blue eyes and brown hair, would die in office. When interviewed by reporters Dixon claimed she told them the president would be assassinated but they refused to print that part.

Dixon advised many famous celebrities, Ronald and Nancy Reagan included. As a matter of fact, Nancy Reagan was constantly hounded by the press for her reliance on astrologers and psychics to set the president’s schedule. Until the day she decided that Dixon had lost her powers and aligned herself with her rival, Joan Quigley, Dixon was one of the people she relied on the most. Dixon wrote her autobiography, horoscopes for dogs, astrological cookbooks and several books on psychic phenomena, to become the author of seven books. She was one of the leading believers in ESP and was a well known influential Washington socialite.

“A Gift Of Prophecy: the Phenomenal Jean Dixon” was written by Political columnist Ruth Montgomery, soon after Kennedy was killed in 1963. Dixon made hundreds of accurate predictions throughout the years according to this book, and, published in 1965, it sold more than three million copies. A celebrity overnight, the publishing of this book meant Dixon was in demand to do lectures, eventually starting her own syndicated horoscope column, which was printed in newspapers all over the world.

The psychic that everybody loved to hate, she was under constant attack in tabloids all over the country. Year after year were reports by countless people that Dixon’s predictions were bogus and that she had never made one that actually came true, including the one about Kennedy’s death. John Allen Paulos, a respected Mathematician, coined what was known as the “Jean Dixon Effect” where people come up with a few accurate predictions but conveniently overlook the hundreds of false predictions that never come true.

The truth is, not all of Jean Dixon’s predictions came true. It was foretold that 1958 would be the year in which World War III would begin, labor leader Walter Reuther would run for president in 1964 and the first country to land a man on the moon would be Russia.

One of the most colorful and well know psychics in history was Jean Dixon, despite not all her premonitions being accurate.