10 People Whose Warnings Went Unheeded In Greek mythology,
Cassandra was the daughter of the King of Troy. She was so
beautiful that the God Apollo granted her the gift of seeing the
future, prophecy. When Cassandra spurned Apollo’s love, he put a
curse on her – that no one would believe any of her predictions.
Cassandra was thus an epic and tragic figure – granted a
powerful ability, yet powerless to use it. Throughout history
there have been many Cassandra-type figures, people who
predicted the coming of terrible tragedies and disasters, but
whose warnings were ignored. These people were not gods and were
not using special powers of prophecy. They were people who had a
deep understanding of the realities of a situation and tried to
warn others. In each case, others failed to listen to their
warnings, and tragedies that might have been averted were not.
Here are ten examples of people who tried to warn others, but
whose warnings went unheeded. On October 24, 1963, less than a
month before President John F Ke