Video Clip 13: 1948 Election Night and Results (6:11) Newsreel footage from election night in 1948 is featured. University of Tennessee Civics Professor Andrew Busch discussed the results of the ...

University of Tennessee Civics Professor Andrew Busch discussed the results and reaction to the 1948 election.

The election results came on Nov. 3. Truman later described going to the Elms in Excelsior Springs for a hot bath, then lying down for a series of naps. At 4 a.m. he got word that he’d won.

Harry S. Truman’s stunning, come-from-behind victory in the 1948 presidential election has encouraged frissons of optimism for long-shot candidates ever since. Walter Mondale invoked the 1948 ...

1948’s election outcome was one of the closest presidential poll results in American history. Projections leading up to Election Day overwhelmingly chose New York Governor Thomas Dewey to win.

Update: All races have been updated with the most accurate results, as reported by each county’s election board. SOUTHERN TIER, N.Y. (WETM) — It’s Primary Election Day across New York ...

HOUSTON — A Houston woman has voted in every election she’s been eligible -- nearly 70 years. Mary Adkins, 101, has voted in every election since Harry Truman won in 1948’s "Dewey defeats ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Nov. 2, 1948, in one of the most unexpected results in U.S. election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman ...

1948’s election outcome was one of the closest presidential poll results in American history. Projections leading up to Election Day overwhelmingly chose New York Governor Thomas Dewey to win.

Harry S. Truman’s stunning, come-from-behind victory in the 1948 presidential election has encouraged frissons of optimism for long-shot candidates ever since. Walter Mondale invoked the 1948 ...