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1972: Rumors of bomb scares at Eastern New Mexico University had been “greatly exaggerated,” according to the head of the college’s security force.
George Reynolds said ENMU had received only one recent bomb threat. That one had been phoned in to one of the women’s dormitories and, after a search, was “proved fruitless.”
Jeane Dixon, an American psychic, had made a prediction there would be “mass murder” on a campus in west Texas or eastern New Mexico. Reynolds called the report “poppycock” and said he felt sure “that no one was upset by the rumor spread on campus and downtown.”
Reynolds also said bomb threats called for criminal prosecution and claimed “special devices are in use that will quickly pinpoint a caller.”
Dixon, who died in 1997 at age 93, was best known for her syndicated newspaper astrology column. Some credit her with predicting President Kennedy’s assassination in a 1956 Parade magazine article. But while she predicted the winner of the 1960 presidential election would be “assassinated or die in office,” she later predicted Richard Nixon would win that election.
She also famously predicted, incorrectly, that World War III would begin in 1958, and that the Soviets would be first to put men on the moon.
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