Several books on The Beatles, including the memoirs of Ivor Davis and Larry Kane, repeat a story that "psychic" Jeane Dixon had forecast that the Beatles’ plane would crash on the flight out of Philadelphia on September 2, 1964. However, Dixon had already denied making such a prediction back in March. Her denial appeared in the first two pages of the San Francisco Examiner on March 26, 1964:
George Harrison's sister, Louise, later telephoned Dixon about the rumour and had been reassured that it was false. The San Francisco Examiner confirmed on September 3rd that this news had been passed on to the group:
For some reason, this news seems to have either never reached the journalists who were traveling with The Beatles, or passed on by the journalists to the public, so the story has been recycled ever since, even though a letter by Dixon to Louise had reportedly been on display in Louise's old house, as reported by the Chicago Tribune on Sunday 8 March 1998. Louise also printed the letter in her book, as discussed here.
Dixon herself is a curious figure. She claimed to have been born in 1918 but her actual year of birth was 1904. She was born
Lydia M Pinckert in Medford, Wisconsin and raised on a dairy farm in Carthage,
Missouri, which she left with her family in 1919, eventually settling in
California. In 1922, she started calling herself Jeane Pinckert while working in a bank. In 1928 she married Charles Zuercher. He died in 1940. She then married James Lamb Dixon and started making predictions. Her first famous prediction was probably the the result of the 1948 Presidential election of that year. In 1973, Dixon’s
real past and age are revealed by author Daniel St. Albin Greene in the
National Observer.
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