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DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. Chicago Daily Tribune volume CVII, number 264. Two star edition. Wednesday, November 3, 1948. image 1
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. Chicago Daily Tribune volume CVII, number 264. Two star edition. Wednesday, November 3, 1948. image 2
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DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.
Chicago Daily Tribune volume CVII, number 264. Two star edition. Wednesday, November 3, 1948.

21 November 2023, 10:00 EST
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DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.

Chicago Daily Tribune volume CVII, number 264. Two star edition. Wednesday, November 3, 1948.
Folio (595 x 420 mm). 26, 6, 8 pp. Light creasing and toning.

FAKE NEWS! The most famous editorial blunder of the 20th century. Crippled by a printer's strike, the staff of the Chicago Daily Tribune was forced to call the 1948 Presidential election before the polls had closed. Based on Gallup polling that had placed Dewey ahead and the Republican-leaning paper's own antipathy to Truman, the editors called the race for the New York Governor and both the one and two star issues carried the headline (along with an embarrassing typographical error in the 8th column: 5 lines of text printed upside down). Once it was clear that Truman was the winner, the staff raced to recall trucks with the erroneous headline and even pulled copies off of readers' lawns. The error would have been forgotten had not Truman passed through Chicago the next day to be photographed jubilantly posing with the November 3 headline. The present copy is a complete, remarkably well preserved issue of the famous paper.

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