1. Jeane Dixon, the famed "seer" from Washington DC, predicted a major international confrontation over "peaceful islands of the South Pacific" in 1983. She also predicted that Princess Diana would release news of a new pregnancy "before the year 1983 is very old."
2. Jeane Dixon saw the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart's ministry being "saved" by a last minute donation in 1990, rather than being destroyed by another scandal involving a prostitute.
3. Jeane Dixon predicted in the January 17, 1995, issue of the Star, saying, "A new, antibiotic-resistant strain of influenza causes coast-to-coast misery in early winter and again in early spring. Scientists will trace the virus to polluted water." It's not surprising. Antibiotics don't work on viruses, which is why you don't prescribe them for the common cold, flu, AIDS, etc.
4. Washington, D.C., "psychic," Jeane Dixon, who supposedly has a "gift of prophecy," saw that Fidel Castro would be overthrown, possibly resulting in Cuba's becoming part of the United States, and that Virginia governor Douglas Wilder would gain enough support for a "vice presidential invitation." President elect Bill Clinton, however, she described as "the Democratic shooting star," and said that "an organization of women will try to block his path. President Bush's ratings would climb, resulting in his reelection." She also predicted "a promising economic upturn in the spring," and that "broccoli will become the miracle vegetable of the nineties."
5. Jeane Dixon issued her predictions for the aftermath of the Gulf War. While she did contain the correct prediction of the release of the Western Hostages in Lebanon, she also predicted that Saddam Hussein would either be assassinated or be put to trial for war crimes in a Moslem court. She also saw terrorist attacks being made against the British Royal Family and Monaco's Prince Rainier (now impossible with his death) and predicted that the world would be stunned as "the old order" in China, Korea, and Japan suddenly fell apart like the Berlin Wall. No major changes occurred in any of these governments during 1991.
6. Jeane Dixon, one of the country's best known psychics, in the July, 1995, issue of the Star, forecast: "a stunning outcome to the O.J. Simpson trial will be a result no one predicted. I can see that O.J. will walk." She was right. But Dixon could just as easily claimed success if Simpson had been found guilty or the jury had failed to reach a decision. "A guilty verdict or hung jury will keep O.J. Simpson in jail through most of this year," she predicted in the January 17, 1995 issue of the Star. "I don't see him walking away a free man until an appeal," Dixon predicted in the April 25, 1995, issue of the tabloid.
7. Dixon predicted a holocaust for the 1980s and that Rome would then rise and become the world's foremost center of culture, learning, and religion; and that the Middle Eastern child whose birth she "witnessed in the vision with Queen Nefertiti" on February 5, 1962, will unite all warring creeds and sects into one all-embracing faith (ibid.: 193).
8. Ms. Dixon claimed that she first began peering into the future when she was about five years of age. Thousands around the country swore by her claims, and many would scarcely make a significant decision without consulting Dixons horoscopic advice.
As a prophetess, however, the lady was a dismal failure - as all her kind are. What do the following predictions have in common?
Russia will be the first nation to land a man on the moon.
World War III will break out in October, 1958.
Walter Reuther will be a Democratic candidate for President in 1964.
There will be no significant congressional legislation in 1965.
Their commonality is this: They all proved to be false prophecies.
Russia has never put a man on the moon. World War III has not broken out yet. Walter Reuther was never a candidate for President. And in 1965, congress passed both the Medicare bill and the Civil Rights Act.
9. The endless chain of Dixon's major failed predictions (such as Tom Dewey as assistant president, the fall of India's Nehru that never happened, Richard Nixon's return to office, germ warfare in 1958 with China, a monster comet striking the Earth, and the election of a female U.S. presidentthe last two to have taken place in the 1980sand the dissolution of the Roman Catholic Church before 1990) establish that her actual, written record is hardly impressive.
10. False Prophecies Although Jeane Dixon supposedly has made some predictions that have come true, she has made many other prophecies that have failed. These include:
A. World War III would begin in 1954. (See other World War III date in #8)
B. Red China would be admitted to the United Nations in 1958. This did not occur until 1971.
C. The Vietnam war would end in 1966. It did not end until 1975.
D. On October 19, 1968, she predicted Jacqueline Kennedy was not thinking of marriage. The next day Mrs. Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis!
E. Union Leader, Walter Reuther, would run for President in 1964. He did not