MH: What does it mean to be psychic? Do you see specific names, or dates or do you just get impressions?
KK: All three. But I am a psychic/medium.

MH: So you are a spiritualist then?
KK: Oh, Of course and a Catholic.

MH: What was your first psychic experience?
KK: I think the tea leaves. My mother had a newspaper friend and as I looked at the leaves I said to her 'Crash, crash. crash.' She was about to take a train and she decided not to take that train and it did crash, but I donÕt remember it.

MH: Now whatÕs the legacy of being born to the seven daughter of a seventh daughter?
KK: Well, you know thatÕs very Irish.

MH: Do you ever do phone readings?
KK: Yes. Would you believe it. I have an application right here from someone in India who wants a phone reading. (See Kenny's rates at the end of this article.) I do London very frequently and recently I did a person in Trinidad. Phone reading employ whatÕs known as 'clairaudience.'

MH: Is that what you learned from Mae West?
KK: Well, nobody really teaches you this. When I was three or four my grandmother, Catherine Walsh Clarke, taught me tea leaf reading. Then my mother, Kaye, taught me psychometry. Then when I was 7 or 8 Mae West was a close friend of my mother's and she practiced clairaudience which is listening to the sound of the voice and picking up the vibrations. Did you know that she wrote all of her plays while in a trance?

MH: No kidding?
KK: She was a multi-millionairess with property that she bought when she was in trance. She would just listen to that little tiny voice inside.

MH: We just need to be able to hear it, right?
KK: Yes, and you can do this through meditation. What is mediation? Meditation is listening to God, just as praying is talking to Him.

MH: When you see people in the street or meet them on your show, do you instantly see things about them?
KK: Of course, but I turn it off. In my younger years when I dated it would have been very embarrassing when I was on a date if I knew the girl wanted to go to bed with me or if she wanted steak and I only had the money for hamburger. so you learn to turn it off. If you keep psychic abilities on for your own gain that would be abusing them and I try not to abuse. You lose it if you do.

MH: How did you get to be so famous? YouÕve really given readings for John Wayne, the original tough guy, and Truman and Eisenhower? How did those encounters come about?
KK: How did I become famous? I was too stupid to accept the word 'no!'

MH: Did you consciously promote yourself or did your fame spread by word of mouth? KK: It just came naturally. Last night I went to a gospel revival. I was embarrassed that they didnÕt invite me up there to yell and scream and holler. It reminded me of an old-time revival. . . like in Spiritualist camps.

MH: YouÕre a good business man as well as a good psychic. Are they two completely different skills? The infomercials make a lot of money, right?
KK: Right. The informercials make money. TheyÕre very successful. Here's what I believe. If you want a Jaguar thereÕs no reason you canÕt have one, or if I wanted a coronation thereÕs no reason I couldn't have one. You could have a million dollars in the bank, but as long as youÕre grateful to the Master and you give to charity, you can have whatever your heart desires. You can have health and wealth as long as you give back some of what He has given you...without Him we have nothing.

MH: How do you contact an angel?
KK: Well, everybodyÕs an angel. When your mother passes over to the other side she'll be an angel. An angel is just an emissary of God, are they not?

MH: So we donÕt necessarily have an angel dedicated to us - like a guardian angel?
KK: People on the earth plane will stab us in the back whereas those on the other side will stand by us forever.

MH: Is that why you call them "sweet spirits?"
KK: Yes, I have been so fortunate. I was psychic to the worldÕs most famous mistress, Marion Davies, when she was with Randolph Hearst, then I became psychic to Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper and they were arch rivals. Then later I became psychic to Sheila Graham, Rhona Barrett and these were people who really helped me along the way. My psychic show has been copied many times, but not equaled. My show became third in the nation of all infomercials.

MH: What do you think past lives are?
KK: You hear that dog barking. That dogÕs name is David Anthony Rex KingstonÑan English- American cocker with the same color hair as I haveÑDavid because I was psychic to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Anthony Rex for my friends Anthony Newley and Rex Harrison. Kingston is pretty obvious. He's a very old soul and has been here several times. HeÕs just been booked on two TV shows recently.

MH: I don't think I want to come back?
KK: You don't? Well, you better be awfully good in this life.

MH: I am! (laughs)
KK: Well, let me tell you something. My pool man was here the other day and he said, 'Kenny, You're the best known psychic in the world. I have to ask you one question. Please, I've got to know. Do I have to come back?" He said, "I've got a five-year-old boy and my wife and I are divorced. What would happen if I killed myself?" And I said to him, "You canÕt kill yourself. YouÕve got nowhere to go! YouÕve got no reservations. If you wanted to go to Spago and you had no reservation, you wouldnÕt be able to get in. Heaven is the same way." Hell, I believe strongly is here on earth and if youÕre not finished here you go into some other place.

MH: Limbo?
KK: Yes, limbo.

MH: You refer to using a crystal bowl to release problems. How do you do that?
KK: You get a yellow towel and you place the bowl over the towel in the sink and let cold water run into the bowl. As you do this you become your own psychiatrist. Like the old days when you had a washer and you could watch the dirty water come out. You call out all your problems, then when youÕre finished calling out your problems, you start looking at the bowl visualizing. If you donÕt see anything, take the bowl and put it under the bed and make your wishes.

MH: That sounds too weird.
KK: DonÕt you think people call anything different weird?

MH: It sounds like youÕve been able to help a lot of people in your lifetime. Do you protect people from ugly things you foresee for them? Are you inclined to tell them if you see something bad in their future?
KK: One of the world's best-known women married to a fabulously wealthy politician called me an hour ago and was crying because she wants to file suit for divorce against her husband. WeÕre working on that. If someone calls me or I give them a private consultation I see someone ill around them, I would tell them. You see I work with colors. If a color came into focus and it told me that her mother was ill I would ask, "Have you talked to your mother lately. Give her a call."

MH: When you're working an audience, how do you pick people for spot readings?
KK: Spirit takes me directly to the person. Let me give you an example. I was paying a hotel engagement a few years back and the room was packed. It was a Saturday night I shall never forget it.
  By the way, I don't remember anything I say during readings. Truman said to me one night, "God you could blackmail half the government!Ó and I said, '"No I couldnÕt because I donÕt remember any of the names?"
   Anyway, this woman was sitting in the back. I told her to look down at your feet. She looked embarrassed and said she had talked the hotel into squeezing her into this seat since all the others were taken. I told her that when I looked at her feet, I heard the name Zuzu. She started to cry and told me that Zuzu was her dog that had passed away a year ago to the day.

MH: Did Truman and Eisenhower call you directly?
KK: I was aide to a General Moore and we took over the Ledo de Venezia, the most wonderful island in the world, and formed the West Point of Europe. To do this we first went to Paris because Eisenhower was there. During our stay I was giving readings in the Officer's Club and General Moore came over and said, "I may as well get my fortune told." I remember telling him to be careful of waterÑthat water could be dangerous to him. Then right behind me, we heard someone say, "All he has to worry about is the water with his scotch!"
It was Eisenhower. So we all stood up and he said, "No, at ease. I would never disturb the spirits."
  So I gave him a reading. Four or five years later General Moore became Commandant of West Point while the Korean war was on. He was on a boat that had engine trouble and tried to swim to shore but drown.
  When Eisenhower was in San Francisco I met him again through then Governor Earl Warren and he said, "I know you . . youÕre the spirit man from Paris!" I thought that was great. He had a tremendous memory.

MH: How about Truman? Did he just call you?
KK: No. I was living in San Francisco, and a man named Ben Swig who owned Fairmount Hotel. gave me a salon to hold seances. He told me Truman was going to be in town and said he was sure heÕd want a reading. A few days later my secretary said to me, "YouÕre not going to believe this, but thereÕs a man on the phone who says heÕs Harry Truman. What am I going to do? IÕve hung up twice and heÕs called back twice." Truman only wanted several questions answered. Then I read for him again at the Waldorf Towers at the suggestion of the Duchess of Windsor.

MH: How much do you charge for a private reading?
KK: Well, for Many Hands readers I'll give you some special options: for $150 there will be three questions answered, that will take about ten minutes. For a half-hour reading, it would be $200 and for 45-minute to an hour reading it would be $350. Tell your readers to call 213/650- 7007 to make an appointment. (Kenny's hotline can be reached at 900/740-0202 at a cost of $3.99 per minute.)

MH: Is there anything else you wish to tell us?
KK: Yes. Remember you can be any religion and still follow Spiritualism - it only embraces the belief that all things are possible if you only believe.