"Dewey Defeats Truman" was an erroneous banner headline on the front page of the early editions of the Chicago Daily Tribune (later Chicago Tribune) on November 3, 1948, the day after incumbent United States president Harry S. Truman won an upset victory over his opponent, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, in the 1948 presidential election.

2009年11月16日 · On November 3, 1948, the Chicago Tribune jumps the gun and mistakenly declares New York Governor Thomas Dewey the winner of the previous days' presidential race against incumbent Harry S....

2023年11月2日 · The Chicago Daily Tribune’s famous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline in the Nov. 3, 1948, newspaper. Staffers were sent out in trucks and station wagons to retrieve the version that began to...

On November 3, 1948, the morning after the 1948 presidential election, the Chicago Daily Tribune's headline read, "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." That's what the Republicans, the polls, the newspapers, the political writers, and even many Democrats had expected.

The Chicago Daily Tribune staff expected a landslide Thomas E. Dewey victory over Harry S. Truman in the Presidential election of 1948, and therefore decided to make Dewey Defeats Truman the headline for the front page of the November 3, 1948 issue of the newspaper. The actual results from the November 2 election showed, however, that Truman ...

2023年11月3日 · When the presses rolled on the Nov. 3, 1948, Election Day editions of the Chicago Daily Tribune, as we called ourselves in those days, Republican Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York had not won his...

2020年11月1日 · Arguably the most famous headline in the newspaper’s 150-year history, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN is every publisher’s nightmare on every election night. Like most newspapers, the Tribune, which...

2023年11月3日 · As the papers were collected and unfurled, their holders would have read on the front page, directly under the Chicago Tribune logo, “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” However, Dewey did not defeat Truman. How did the Chicago Tribune, a pillar of upstanding journalism, report the results of the presidential election incorrectly?

2013年11月1日 · Holding the paper, which blared the erroneous banner headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman," Truman flashes a triumphant smile. Executive Order 9981, one of Truman's most important...

2017年11月3日 · This was too late for the Chicago Daily Tribune to retract the early edition of its newspaper, which boldly declared Dewey’s triumph over Truman. The newspaper remains infamous to this day thanks to the iconic photo of Truman holding it up and grinning at it, while telling reports “That ain’t the way I heard it!”