‘Dewey Defeats Truman’: The True Story Behind One Of American History’s Most Iconic Images
All That's Interesting | 05.02.2026 09:00
On Nov. 3, 1948, an early edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune trumpeted the winner of the election of 1948, which had pitted incumbent President Harry S. Truman against Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. The victor, the paper declared, was Dewey, and the front page exclaimed: “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.”
