Dewey Defeats Truman Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper; Harry S. Truman Photograph Reproduction Signed.

Rare original Chicago Daily Tribune with the headline "Dewey Defeats Truman." It was an incorrect banner headline on the front page of the Chicago Daily Tribune on November 3, 1948, the day after incumbent United States President, Harry S. Truman, won an upset victory over Republican challenger and Governor of New York, Thomas E. Dewey, in the 1948 presidential election. It was famously held up by Truman at a public appearance following his successful election, smiling triumphantly at the error. The erroneous headline of the Chicago Daily Tribune (now just the Chicago Tribune) became notorious after a jubilant Truman was photographed holding a copy of the paper during a stop at St. Louis Union Station while returning by train from his home in Independence, Missouri, to Washington, D.C. The Tribune, which had once referred to Truman as a "nincompoop", was a famously Republican-leaning paper. In a retrospective article over half a century later about the newspaper's most famous and embarrassing headline, the Tribune wrote that Truman "had as low an opinion of the Tribune as it did of him." Accompanied with a signed photographic reproduction of President Harry Truman holding the famous newspaper. The photograph is inscribed by President Truman, "To E.R. Koppelmann From Harry Truman." In very good condition. Framed, with the photographic reproduction on backing. The entire piece measures 18.75 inches by 25.75 inches.