At the crack of dawn on November 3, 1948, in an effort to be the first newspaper to announce the defeat of President Harry S. Truman in the 1948 presidential election, the Chicago Daily Tribune (now just the Chicago Tribune) announced that New York Governor Thomas Dewey had won the presidential election. There was only one small problem. Truman won! Oops. Just as Harry held up the paper in a moment of presidential hilarity, I leaped up and grabbed it. I had a sense that it might be a collector's item someday.
- Charlie
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