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Lot 680: Famous Dewey Defeats Truman Presidential Wire Photo

ITEM DESCRIPTION

 
Reserve: $100.00
Winning Bid: $175.00
Price Realized: $209.13
Auction Date:9/23/2007 9:00 PM EST

Newly elected President Harry S. Truman gets a kick out of the Chicago Tribune headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" in this laser wire photo. It is 10 1/2" x 7" and in EX condition. Photo was originally shot in 1948 just after Truman's run for a second term. This laser photo was re-created in 1972. The erroneous headline was in the first edition of the paper, and only a few hundred were actually released before the Tribune issued a second edition and backed off from declaring a winner.

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