On November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama was elected as the 44th president of the United States.
It was grand, historic night – not just for us in US, but all over the World.
I wanted to grab a newspaper – with a front page image – on Nov 05 (the day after) as a souveneir of this day. But they were sold out every where I went ! Finally, I managed to grab a ‘customer copy’ of San Jose Mercury News from a Cafe by 8pm. I am really thankful to the Cafe owner who just gave it to me FREE !!
Here is the front page image from Mercury News
And from San Francisco Chronicle:
If you have missed out on these editions, you can order a copy here:
http://www.mercurynews.net/obama/
It is really interesting to see the newspaper covers from US and around the world. Here are few links:
- The definitive place is Newseum which has over 700 newspaper covers : http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default_archive.asp?fpArchive=110508
- Obama website : http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/amandascott/gGx3Xq
- http://www.buzzfeed.com/eliot/obama-newspaper-covers
-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obamas-victory-on-newspap_n_141311.html