Chicago Daily Tribune's 'Dewey Defeats Truman' Headline: What Really Happened

The Chicago Daily Tribune printed 'Dewey Defeats Truman' on election night 1948, and they were dead wrong. Pollsters, pundits, and even some of Harry Truman's own aides had written him off before a single vote was counted. Truman kept campaigning anyway, and when the results came in, that front page became one of the most famous mistakes in American journalism.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

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