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 will not soon be forgotten.

His most famous prediction, and probably the one that got the most attention from psychics in general, was when he predicted that President John F. Kennedy would die in office. As it turned out, Kennedy was assassinated while in Dallas, Texas. His actual 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 she was interviewed, 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 adviser to many famous celebrities, including Ronald and Nancy Reagan. In fact, Nancy Reagan was constantly harassed by the press for trusting astrologers and psychics to set the president’s timetable. Jean Dixon was one of the people she trusted the most about her until one day she decided that Dixon had lost her powers and she decided to side with Dixon’s rival, Joan Quigley.

Dixon was also the author of seven books. He wrote autobiography of it, as well as horoscopes for dogs, astrological cookbooks, and various books on psychic phenomena. Dixon was one of the main believers in ESP and was a well-known influential Washington socialite.

After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, the notoriety that hit Dixon because of it led political columnist Ruth Montgomery to write a book titled “A Gift of Prophecy: The Phenomenal Jean Dixon.” This book talked about hundreds of accurate predictions that Dixon 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 much in demand for speaking engagements, eventually prompting her to start her own syndicated horoscope column, which was printed in newspapers around the world.

For whatever reason, Jean Dixon was the psychic 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 by the name of John Allen Paulos coined what is known as the “Jean Dixon Effect”, where people make a few accurate predictions but miss 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 start in 1958 on some offshore Chinese islands and that labor leader Walter Reuther would run for president in 1964 and that the Russians would put the first man on the moon.

Jean Dixon may not have always been accurate with her predictions, but she will always remain one of the most colorful and well-known psychics in history.