Dewey Defeats Truman refers to the erroneous banner headline the Chicago Daily Tribune ran in its early editions on November 3, 1948, the morning after the presidential election, wrongly declaring that Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey had beaten incumbent President Harry Truman. Nearly every poll and pundit had predicted a comfortable Dewey win, and the Tribune went to press before final results overturned that expectation. A jubilant Truman was photographed the next day in St. Louis holding up a copy of the mistaken front page, and that photograph became one of the most reproduced images in American political history. The episode stands as the most famous wrong headline in American newspaper history and a lasting cautionary tale about the limits of pre election polling.
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The episode stands as the most famous wrong headline in American newspaper history and a lasting cautionary tale about the limits of pre election polling.
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"Dewey Defeats Truman" was an erroneous banner headline on the front page of the earliest editions of the Chicago Daily Tribune on November 3, 1948, the day after Harry S.
In Medium: Newspapers, Lead
"Dewey Defeats Truman" was an erroneous banner headline on the front page of the earliest editions of the Chicago Daily Tribune on November 3, 1948, the day after Harry S.
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