Hail to the Chief
Photograph
Hail to the Chief
November 4, 1948
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.8 x 21.9 cm
Overall: 20.3 x 28 cm
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0081.0090
Inscriptions recto-to left of image, transmitted caption (title & "(AP Wirephoto)
(rgt42317fls)1972")
"HAIL TO THE CHIEF-President Harry S. Truman beams at a cheering crowd at St. Louis' Union Station on Nov. 4, 1948, as he holds an early copy of the Chicago Tribune with its erroneous headline: "Dewey Defeats ruman." Truman told the crowd, 'that is one for the books."
(rgt42317fls)1972")
"HAIL TO THE CHIEF-President Harry S. Truman beams at a cheering crowd at St. Louis' Union Station on Nov. 4, 1948, as he holds an early copy of the Chicago Tribune with its erroneous headline: "Dewey Defeats ruman." Truman told the crowd, 'that is one for the books."
