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Look Back: Harry Truman @ Union Station

Date: 10/30/2009 Album ID: 877154

Photos by Post-Dispatch staff photographers

Two days after the 1948 election, at St. Louis� Union Station, President Harry Truman held up a copy of the previous day�s newspaper, and a famous photograph was made. Truman had surprised everyone with a victory over his Republican challenger, Thomas E. Dewey.

Nov. 3, 1948-----President Harry Truman happily waves an early edition of the Chicago Tribune that splashed the editors' wrong bet on the result of the Nov. 2, 1948, presidential election. In defeating New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican nominee, Truman also beat the pollsters and oddsmakers. Truman and his family had stopped at St. Louis Union Station two days later on their return trip from Independence, Mo., to Washington, and were met by about 13,000 happy supporters. Former congressman C. Arthur Anderson of Mehlville had a copy of the paper and passed it up to Truman, who mugged for the news photographers. (Louis Phillips/Post-Dispatch)

A wider view of Truman's frolic amidst the crowd of newspaper people at the end of the President's special train. At left is Bernard F. Dickmann, local postmaster and former mayor of St. Louis. The man in the center was not identified in the original cutline. (Louis Phillips/Post-Dispatch)

Truman and Dickmann acknowledging the cheers. (Post-Dispatch)

The crowd gathered around Truman's train car on Track 35. Behind the doors and the glass wall is the enclosed midway of Union Station, the long walkway between the train shed and the terminal building. This particular crowd had waited to get a glimpse of Truman. Before the train pulled in, police only allowed VIPs trackside. But Truman saw the crowd through the windows and shouted, Open the gates. In those days of loose security, the police officers complied. (Post-Dispatch)

Truman with his wife, Bess, at left; their daughter, Margaret, and Dickmann, on the car platform at Union Station. This is the photograph that the Post-Dispatch put on its front page on the evening of Nov. 4, 1948. The photos of Truman holding the Chicago Tribune have become famous in American politics. (Post-Dispatch)

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