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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's every Chicago Trib front page from Abraham Lincoln's 1860 victory to Barack Obama's win in 08
1860: HONEST OLD ABE ELECTED: Abraham Lincoln was victorious, and the Chicago Tribune on Nov. 7 was joyous. The newspaper and its publisher Joseph Medill had strongly supported Lincoln's candidacy. A Page One editorial read in part: "There is hope yet for freedom, for honesty, for purity. Let distrust and apprehension be banished forever. ... It is enough to say that the triumph is a glorious one -- that Abraham Lincoln is President elect of this great Republic. And let all the people say Amen!" In the nine-column broadsheet, opinion was most of column 1, news ran in columns 2-6, and advertisements filled the remaining three columns. Remarkably, the coverage includes tabulated, ward-by-ward results for president, governor and other major races.
More including photos of the various front pages :
http://www.chicagotribune.com/site/newspaper/news/ct-per-flash-tribune-presidential-coverage-1104,0,1541826.photogallery
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)LTR
(13,227 posts)Posting here so I can find it later on the PC (I'm on my phone now).
Obviously it includes Dewey Defears Truman, right?
I have a coffee table book of NY Times covers from 20th century elections.
mucifer
(23,565 posts)1948: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN: The Tribunes most infamous headline was printed on at least two editions (out of 11) and 150,000 copies (out of 1.1 million). Besides the gross blunder of misreporting the presidential race, the page also was a typographic mess. Lines and type were askew, and five lines of type in the second paragraph of the lead story were actually printed upside down. While Harry Trumans victory was a surprise, and the typesetters were on strike, nothing excuses the mistake. For a more detailed explanation of how the error was made, see chicagotribune.com/flashback.