| Probably the most famous psychic of our time was | | | | the notoriety that hit Dixon because of it drove political |
| the ever popular Jean Dixon. On January 25, 1997, she | | | | columnist Ruth Montgomery to write a book called "A |
| passed away, but not before leaving a legacy that | | | | Gift Of Prophecy: the Phenomenal Jean Dixon." This |
| won't soon be forgotten.Her most famous prediction, | | | | book told of hundreds of accurate predictions Dixon |
| and probably the one that got psychics in general the | | | | made throughout the years. The book was published in |
| most attention, was when she predicted that President | | | | 1965 and sold more than three million copies. The |
| John F. Kennedy would die in office. As it turned out, | | | | publishing of this book turned Dixon into an overnight |
| Kennedy was assassinated while in Dallas Texas. Her | | | | celebrity and made her much in demand to do lectures, |
| actual prediction was that a democratic president | | | | and eventually prompted her to start her own |
| elected in 1960, a tall young man with blue eyes and | | | | syndicated horoscope column, which was printed in |
| brown hair, would die in office. According to Dixon | | | | newspapers all over the world.For some reason |
| when interviewed she said that she told reporters that | | | | though Jean Dixon was the psychic that everybody |
| the president would be assassinated but they refused | | | | loved to hate. Year after year were reports by |
| to print that part.While she was alive, Dixon was an | | | | countless people that Dixon's predictions were bogus |
| advisor to many famous celebreties including Ronald | | | | and that she had never made one that actually came |
| and Nancy Reagan. As a matter of fact, Nancy | | | | true, including the one about Kennedy's death. The |
| Reagan was constantly hounded by the press for her | | | | woman was under constant attack in tabloids all over |
| reliance on astrologers and psychics to set the | | | | the country. A respected Mathematician by the name |
| president's schedule. Jean Dixon was one of the | | | | of John Allen Paulos coined what was known as the |
| people she relied on the most until one day she | | | | "Jean Dixon Effect" where people come up with a |
| decided that Dixon had lost her powers and decided | | | | few accurate predictions but conveniently overlook the |
| instead to align herself with Dixon's rival, Joan | | | | hundreds of false predictions that never come |
| Quigley.Dixon was also the author of seven books. | | | | true.The truth is, not all of Jean Dixon's predictions |
| She wrote her autobiography as well as horoscopes | | | | came true. She predicted that World War III would |
| for dogs, astrological cookbooks and several books on | | | | start in 1958 over some offshore Chinese Islands and |
| psychic phenomena. Dixon was one of the leading | | | | that labor leader Walter Reuther would run for |
| believers in ESP and was a well known influential | | | | president in 1964 and that the Russians would land the |
| Washington socialite.After Kennedy was killed in 1963 | | | | first man on the moon. |