In this St. Louis Globe-Democrat photograph, a triumphant President Harry S. Truman holds up the Chicago Daily Tribune on Nov. 3, 1948 during a stop at St. Louis Union Station to display the famously erroneous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline. The paper misjudged the outcome of the presidential election and declared Thomas E. Dewey the winner.

In this St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
photograph, a
triumphant President
Harry S. Truman holds
up the Chicago Daily
Tribune on Nov. 3,
1948 during a stop
at St. Louis Union
Station to display the
famously erroneous
“Dewey Defeats
Truman” headline.
The paper misjudged
the outcome of the
presidential election
and declared Thomas
E. Dewey the winner.