Looking around, Truman saw the arena had suddenly grown remarkably overcrowded. “To say the place became overcrowded is a mild statement,” remembered the Democratic National Committee’s Ed Pauley. “It was one of the world’s catastrophes.” Pauley remembers canvassing his assistants trying to find out what was going on. Where were all these people coming from? It turned out that Wallace supporters had flooded the arena bearing counterfeit entrance tickets. “No delegate can sit in his own seat,” Pauley was told. “The Wallace people have taken the whole thing over.”
