By Alex Lix
The American palm readers could have prevented the assassination of the President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, which occurred in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. But they did not. Why?
President Kennedy’s hands were among the most recognizable of his time. He always displayed them to greet people during his public appearances. In the 1950s and 1960s, American newspapers and magazines published hundreds of photographs of President Kennedy waving to the crowd and showing the palms of his hands. Therefore, any American hand reader had access to those photos and, through that means, was able to unravel the future of the leader.
American hand readers claimed to possess exceptional predictive abilities. Through photographs of the U.S. President greeting the public, these predictors could have foreseen the assassination many years before it took place in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 local time. However, none of the American hand readers reached out to the White House or the Kennedy family’s circle to warn them of the impending danger to the President.
In 1963, the population of the United States was 189,323,175 people. Psychic organizations estimate that there were over 13,000 hand readers in the country at that time. So, it is suspicious that none of them saw a photo of President Kennedy showing the palms of his hands and, through them, discovered that he was going to be assassinated.
If at least one of them knew in advance the tragedy that President Kennedy was about to suffer, why didn’t they communicate it to the White House?
Reading palm lines is one of the oldest methods of future divination in history. Archaeologists and anthropologists have found evidence of its existence in Mesopotamia (3500 B.C.) and ancient Egypt (3100 B.C.). From there, it spread to all corners of the world, and it is estimated that today over 700,000 people make a living as professional hand readers worldwide.
Present-day American hand readers charge between $50 and $200 for their services, although some may charge over $1,000.
Why did the American hand readers fail to save President Kennedy, whose palms were the best-known of their time? If they were unable to save the President, will they be able to save you or me? Are the predictions of the future obtained through palm reading really reliable?
The truth is that American hand readers were unable to save President Kennedy or Martin Luther King Jr., and before them, President Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated on April 14, 1865 in Washington D.C. These cases demonstrate that palmistry is an ineffective method for predicting the future and that its practitioners are authentic con artists.