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Summary
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English:
Harry S. Truman
holding the
Chicago Daily Tribune
with the erroneous headline, "
Dewey Defeats Truman
" at
Union Station
in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 4, 1948, after winning the
1948 United States presidential election
. He was so widely expected to lose that the Tribune printed the erroneous headline, boldly anticipating victory for his opponent,
Thomas E. Dewey
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" A presidential election history lesson: Americans often waited days or weeks for the outcome ", The Washington Post , November 4, 2020 Originally distributed by the Associated Press and published in numerous newspapers on November 5, 1948. |
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in the United States because it was
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in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive,
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This work is in the
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No instance was found of the photograph being published with a proper copyright notice in 1948. Examples of newspapers where it was published without copyright notice:
- Decatur Herald
- St. Petersburg Times
- Amarillo Daily News
- Rushville Republican
- The Courier-Journal
- The Lima News