The Chicago Daily Tribune's edition dated November 3, 1948 announced DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. Polls had predicted an easy win for Thomas Dewey, and a printers' strike forced the paper to go to press before most results were in.
About 150,000 copies went out. Harry Truman won, 303 electoral votes to 189, and days later he held the paper up for the cameras in St. Louis.
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