Excerpted from the book ‘Prophecy in our time’ by Martin Ebon
Chapter 19th – ‘Who is dead in the White House?’
A hero must die a violent death. To die in old age, peacefully is unheroic. That, at least, is in accord with the popular image of a hero in mythology, legend, and life today. The contemporary hero par excellence who died a violent death was JFK. A similar pattern emerged with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the death in an airplane of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in Africa. History, ancient and contemporary, is littered with similar tragedies.
The death of President Kennedy sparked a world-wide reaction of unique emotional shock. It was also one of the most extensively predicted personal disasters of our time. We have noted that Mrs. Jeane Dixon spoke of an assassination here as early as 1956. She did not waver from this prophecy, which she repeated many times – up to the day of Kennedy’s violent death on November 22nd, 1963, in fact.
As recounted in Ruth Montgomery’s book, Mrs. Dixon had an engagement a few days before to dine with Mr. John Teeter, executive director of the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund, the Vicomtesse Fournier de la Barre, of Paris, and Miss Eleanor Bumgardner, in a suburban Washington restaurant. As their conversation was recalled later by Miss Bumgardner, Mrs. Dixon seemed distraught en route, driving her car at a snail’s pace. When asked what was troubling her, she replied, “I just can’t get my mind off the White House. Every where I go I see the White House with a dark cloud moving down on it. Something tragic is going to happen very, very soon!” The next day, Miss Bumgardner visited Mrs. Dixon in her husband’s real estate office. She found her in an agitated state of mind: “Dear God! In a very few days the President will be killed. I see his casket coming out of the White House. . . .”
On November 20th, at a luncheon with Mrs. Harley Cope, widow of a rear admiral, and Charles Benter, who had organized the U.S. navy band (and was then retired and working for Mr. Dixon’s real estate firm), Mrs. Dixon was again extremely self-absorbed, missed part of a conversation and said: “I’m sorry, but I can’t hear what you say, because the President is going to be shot”. As Ruth Montgomery narrates this incidentm Mrs. Cope, thinking that she had misunderstood, asked, “Who did you say was going to be shot?” Mrs. Dixon answered, “Our President, President Kennedy.”
On November 22nd, after attending Mass, she met Mr. Benter at a coffee shop, where she told him, “This is the day it will happen!” Later, at lunch with Mrs. Cope and Mrs. Rebecca Kaufmann, Mrs. Dixon did not touch her food. When Mrs. Kaufmann urged her to eat, she said, “Mrs. Kaufmann, I just can’t, I’m too upset. Something dreadful is going to happen to the President today.” The news of the shooting of President Kennedy came over the radio very shortly afterward.
