The Chicago Daily Tribune’s famous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline in the Nov. 3, 1948, newspaper. Several news organizations made the same miscalculation, but no other’s was displayed ...

Embattled President Harry S. Truman shocked political pundits and mocked national headline makers when he defeated Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey in the race for the White House on this day ...

Seventy-five years ago to the day, our presses rolled out the most notorious headline in this newspaper’s 176-year history: “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” Well, no, he didn’t. When… ...

US ELECTION “Dewey defeats Truman”: When the newspapers and pollsters botched the result of the US election. In 1948, pollsters - and headline writers - were left red-faced when Harry Truman ...

Dewey Defeats TrumanBy Thomas MallonPantheon, 355 pages, $24It takes a vivid imagination to turn the most famous presidential headline in modern newspaper history–“Dewey Defeats Truman ...

President-elect Harry S. Truman laughs heartily as he holds an early edition of the Chicago Tribune for November 4, 1948, with the headline “Dewey Defeats Truman.” ...

The erroneous Chicago Daily Tribune headline “Dewey Defeats Truman” that made it into history books is evidence of how sure so-called experts were that Truman would lose.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 2, 1948, in one of the most unexpected results in U.S. election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman ...

Inspired by Truman’s unpopularity and by polling data indicating the presidency was his to lose, Dewey by mid-August 1948 settled on a play-it-safe, above-the-fray campaign, rejecting ...

U.S. President Harry S. Truman holds up an Election Day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which, based on early results, mistakenly announced “Dewey Defeats Truman” on Nov. 4, 1948.