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"Dewey Defeats Truman" was an erroneous banner headline on the front page of the early editions of the Chicago Daily Tribune (later Chicago Tribune) on November 3, 1948, the day after incumbent United States president Harry S. Truman won an upset victory over his opponent, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, in the 1948 presidential election.
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Original – On November 4, 1948, President Harry S. Truman holds a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune with the headline "Dewey Defeats Truman." Despite his expected loss to Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 United States presidential election, Truman won, and the Tribune had already printed their headline anticipating Truman would lose. Reason
I’ve always been drawn to that 1948 photo of Harry Truman, Cheshire Cat grin, holding up the Chicago Daily Tribune and its screaming front page: "Dewey Defeats Truman." (Spoiler alert—he did not.)
The pressure to break the news first creates a danger represented most infamously by a three-word Chicago Tribune headline: “Dewey Defeats Truman.” This blunder stemmed from the certainty that ...
While broad and superficial similarities may be detected between Biden-Trump in 2024 and Truman-Dewey in 1948, the two cases are in fact quite dissimilar. ... Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1948. Incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman defeated heavily favored Republican New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and third-party candidates, becoming the third president to succeed to the presidency upon his predecessor's death and be elected to a full term.
An early edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune had printed the headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, boldly anticipating a victory for Dewey. [2] On November 4 Truman stepped out onto the rear platform of the Ferdinand Magellan during a brief stop in St. Louis, Missouri. [186] Holding the Chicago Daily Tribune he posed for reporters to capture the moment.