Dewey Defeats Truman
The erroneous headline became ill-famed after a jubilant Truman was photographed holding a copy of the paper during a stop at St. Louis Union Station. The paper planned to give Truman a plaque with a replica of the erroneous banner headline before the gift could be bestowed on him in 1972, but he died before the plaque could be given to him.
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\”Dewey Defeats Truman\” was an incorrect banner headline on the front page of the Chicago Daily Tribune on November 3, 1948. It was the day after incumbent U.S. president Harry S. Truman won an upset victory over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election. The erroneous headline became ill-famed after a jubilant Truman was photographed holding a copy of the paper during a stop at St. Louis Union Station while returning by train from his home in Independence, Missouri, to Washington, D. C. Two days later, when Truman was passing through St. Louis on the way to Washington he stepped to the rear platform of his train car, the Ferdinand Magellan, and was handed a copy.
Happy to ex in the paper, he held it up for the photographers gathered at the station and said, ‘That ain’t the way I heard it!’ The Tribune was not the only paper to make the mistake. The Journal of Commerce had eight articles about what could be expected of Dewey. The paper planned to give Truman a plaque with a replica of the erroneous banner headline before the gift could be bestowed on him in 1972, but he died before the plaque could be given to him. In 1966, in a retrospective article about the newspaper’s most famous and embarrassing headline, the Tribune wrote that Truman had as low an opinion of the Tribune as it did of him.
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