Recalling The Amazing Kreskin

Card tricks, mind reads, and New Year's Day predictions

Dec 17, 2024

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The Amazing Kreskin on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ in 2009. The celebrity mentalist rose in the 1970s through TV appearances, including 88 times on Johnny Carson.

By Adam Kluger

Born George J. Kresge in 1935, the ‘Amazing Kreskin’ was drawn to magic and psychology at an early age, eventually rising to become a pop culture phenomenon.

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