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Harry S. Truman holding newspaper with the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" after winning the 1948 United States presidential election.

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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.
Date Taken on 4 November 1948
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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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Byron H. Rollins (1913–1988) wikidata:Q103426900
 
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Byron Rollins
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Date of birth/death 26 April 1913 Edit this at Wikidata January 1988 Edit this at Wikidata
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English: 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:

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