Gene Dixon

Young years

Dixon was born into a family of German immigrants in the city of Medford in Wisconsin , and spent her childhood and youth in Missouri and then in California ^[4] , where her father owned a car dealership with the famous producer Hal Roach. ^[5] Dixon herself called the date of her birth 1918 , ^{[2] [1]} and then 1910 , ^[1] but during a special investigation of journalists during which many members of her family were interviewed, it was possible to establish that she appeared on light in 1904 . ^{[1] [6]}

According to Dixon’s own stories, when she was still a teenager, she met a gypsy woman who predicted that she would become a well-known seer and that the country's most prominent people would resort to her services. In addition to this, she handed Dixon a magic ball, which she did not part with throughout her future life. ^[7]

In 1939, she married James Dixon, a car dealer, who later became the head of a successful real estate company in Washington . ^[8] Dixon worked for many years with her husband in this business, and lived with him until his death. Despite this, the couple did not have children. ^[9]

Predictions

Popularity among the masses brought her the alleged prediction of the assassination of President Kennedy . On May 13, 1956, in the next issue of Parade Magazine, she published a prophecy stating that a Democratic President would come to power in the 1960 elections, who would then be killed at the post. Later, she nevertheless admitted that she was confident in the victory in the election of Richard Nixon ^[10] and in the failure of Kennedy. ^[eleven]

Gene Dixon was credited with predicting the killing of Senator Robert Kennedy , black rights activist Martin Luther King , the early demise of Marilyn Monroe , the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite and the death of Apollo 1 . There are also stories that in 1942, Dixon met at the hairdresser with actress Carol Lombard , who she tried to dissuade from the planned flight, but in the end, the actress did not listen to her words and soon died in a plane crash.

Gene Dixon also listened to the advice of Richard Nixon , who later became president, who was carefully preparing for the attack against him that Dixon had predicted for him. ^[12] During the presidency of Ronald Reagan, Dixon was considered one of his personal astrologers, and his wife Nancy also often resorted to her advice. Dixon herself, being a devout Catholic, called God her enlightener. ^[four]

Gene Dixon is the author of seven books, including an autobiography, as well as a horoscope for dogs and an astrological cookbook. She was a frequent visitor to various television shows and TV shows, including the hit Golden Girls sitcom in the 1980s , where Dickson played herself in 1985 .

The Gene Dixon Effect

Despite this recognition in high society, many of Dixon's predictions turned out to be false. Such fakes were her allegations that a dispute over the Matsu and Kinmendao islands would trigger the Third World War in 1958 , that American trade union leader Walter Reiter would run for president in the United States in 1964 , and that the Russians would be the first to land on the moon . ^{[13] [14]} These misses led to the term “Gene Dixon effect,” coined by Temple University professor of mathematics John Allen Poluz. ^[4] Its meaning is that due to several coinciding predictions, their predictors immediately begin to extol, ignoring a number of false predictions, which often outnumber the correct ones.

Death

Gene Dixon died on January 25, 1997, after a heart attack at Sibl Hospital in Washington , DC , at the age of 93. ^[4] After her death, most of her property went to her former client investor Leo M. Bernstein, who in 2002 gathered them in one place at the Gene Dixon Museum in Virginia that he founded. Bernstein died in 2008 , and a year later all his things related to the name Gene Dixon were put under the hammer. ^[9]

• Dixon, Jeane, co-authored with Noorbergen, Rene, Jeane Dixon: My Life and Prophecies , William Morrow and Company, August 1969, ISBN 0-688-02142-5 .
• Dixon, Jeane, Reincarnation and Prayers to Live By , W. Morrow, 1970, ISBN 0-688-15003-9 .
• Dixon, Jeane, The Call to Glory , Bantam Books, 1973, ISBN 0-553-07512-8 .
• Dixon, Jeane, Jeane Dixon's Astrological cookbook , Morrow, 1976, ISBN 0-688-03091-2 .
• Dixon, Jeane, Horoscopes for Dogs , Houghton Mifflin, 1979, ISBN 0-395-27453-2 .
• Dixon, Jeane, Yesterday, Today, and Forever , Andrews Mcmeel Publishing, 1987, ISBN 0-8362-7941-7 .
• Dixon, Jeane, A Gift of Prayer Words of Comfort and Inspiration From the Beloved Prophet and Seer , Viking Studio Books, 1995, ISBN 978-0-670-86010-4 .
• Dixon, Jeane, Do Cats Have Esp? , Running Press Book Publishers, 1998, ISBN 978-0-9665202-0-0 .

• Gene Dixon on the Internet Movie Database
• Article about Gene Dixon on LiveInternet
• Gene Dixon on the site Top Secret
• Gene Dixon in the series Golden Girls (1985)