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 ...

On this day in 1948, in one of the least foreseen upsets in the annals of presidential elections, Democrat Harry S. Truman, the incumbent, defeated New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, his Republican ...

A month before the election, nine out of 10 U.S. newspapers endorsed Truman’s challenger. Certain of a Dewey landslide, one pollster even stopped polling by September.

After blunders by CNN and Fox in their Supreme Court coverage, President Obama got his very own Harry Truman moment. ... Trending: Dewey Defeats Truman, again. Published: Jun. 28, 2012, ...

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 ...

RELATED: Dewey defeats Truman Chicago Tribune print page. As the first-edition deadline approached, managing editor J. Loy “Pat” Maloney had to make the headline call, ...

A jubilant Harry Truman holds up a Chicago newspaper emblazoned with the (erroneous) headline, "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN," St. Louis, Missouri, November 4, 1948.

Joe Donahue: New York Times best-selling author AJ Baime's new book "Dewey Defeats Truman" gives us the story of what happened to Truman's presidency after the bomb was dropped. The chronicles the ...

President Harry S. Truman gleefully displays an early edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune from his train in St. Louis after his defeat of Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.

As a presidential candidate, Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York was not a glad-hander, not a flesh-presser. He was stiff and tended toward pomposity. “The only man who could strut sitting down&#82… ...