Johnny then makes a hobby out of meeting politicians to see their futures. Having another clairvoyant incident, he tells Carter that he is going to be president. Later on, Johnny meets presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and shakes his hand. He also takes up an interest in politics, and becomes concerned when he watches a rally for Stillson. He moves to New Hampshire and takes a job as tutor for a wealthy young man named Chuck. Johnny's offer to return to his teaching job is rescinded due to his being "too controversial to be effective as a teacher". Some time later he decides to run for the House of Representatives, blackmailing a local businessman into raising funds for him. Asked to "straighten out" a friend's teenaged nephew for wearing an obscene t-shirt, he sets the shirt on fire and terrorizes the youth with a broken bottle, threatening to kill him if he tells anyone. Stillson, now a successful businessman and elected mayor of Ridgeway, N.H., still suffers from his emotional problems. His extra sense provides enough detail to identify the killer, Frank Dodd, who commits suicide and leaves a confession.
A reporter for a national tabloid maliciously prints a story denouncing his clairvoyance as phony, but this brings Johnny relief and the hope he can resume a normal life - a hope broken when he is contacted by George Bannerman desperate to solve a series of murders, including that of a child. Johnny shrugs off local media reports of his supposed psychic talents and accepts an offer to resume teaching, but begins to suffer from severe headaches. Christopher medallion owned by a skeptical reporter.
On waking, Johnny finds that he has suffered neural injury, but on touching people and objects he is able to tell them things they did not know - in this way he knows a nurse's son would have successful surgery, states that his doctor's mother, long believed dead, is living in Carmel, California, tells Sarah that her lost wedding ring was in her suitcase pocket, and later recounts the story behind a St. After eerily winning repeatedly at the wheel of fortune with his girlfriend Sarah Bracknell, Johnny is involved in an accident on his way home and is in a coma for 5 years.
Two years later in an unconnected incident in Iowa, a young door to door Bible salesman named Greg Stillson, suffering emotional issues and dreaming of greatness, vindictively kicks an aggressive dog to death. A few months later the adult is seriously injured while jump starting a car battery. In 1953, a young boy named Johnny Smith suffers an accident while ice-skating while recovering he mumbles "Don't jump it no more" to an adult on the scene.
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