“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn”
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Katharine Graham
Katharine Meyer Graham was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was one of the first 20th-century female publishers of a major American newspaper and the first woman elected to the board o…
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Born 16 June 1917 · Died 17 July 2001 · Q435203
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 23,205 Wikipedia readers in one day, 44.4× the usual 523, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Death mv video of funeral after her death, where it belongs
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2017· 2 entries
In his Los Angeles home at the age of 69
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Graham was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the Steven Spielberg film The Post
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2010· 1 entry
Graham was profiled in the National Portrait Gallery's One Life: Katharine Graham
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2002· 4 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2002).
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George W. Bush (2002).
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Graham was presented, posthumously, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W
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Graham was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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2001· 3 entries
Died 2001-07-17.
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Graham fell and struck her head while visiting Sun Valley, Idaho; she was taken to St
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“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”
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2000· 3 entries
Awarded International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes (2000).
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Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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Graham was named one of the International Press Institute's 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the past 50 years
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1999· 1 entry
Graham received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1998).
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Television station WCPX-TV in Orlando changed its callsign to WKMG-TV in honor of longtime Washington Post publisher, Katharine M
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Her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
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1997· 3 entries
Won Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal (1997).
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Received the Freedom medal for her commitment to freedom of speech and expression
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Graham published her memoirs, Personal History
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Courage in Journalism Award (1994).
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1988· 2 entries
Graham gave a speech titled "Secrecy and the Press" to a packed auditorium at CIA headquarters as part of that agency's Office of Training and Education's Guest Speaker series
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Graham was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (1987).
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Graham won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
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1979· 2 entries
The Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Graham's name and picture
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Deborah Davis published an unauthorized biography of Graham entitled Katharine the Great
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1974· 1 entry
Graham became the first woman elected to the board of directors at the Associated Press
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1973· 3 entries
Awarded Ladies' Home Journal Women of the Year (1973).
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Awarded Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award (1973).
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Graham received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College
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1972· 1 entry
When Nixon's attorney general, John Mitchell, warned reporter Carl Bernstein about a forthcoming article: "Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published
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1966· 1 entry
Graham was the named honoree of Truman Capote's Black and White Ball
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1963· 1 entry
Died by suicide with a shotgun at the couple's "Glen Welby" estate near Marshall in the Virginia horse country
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1962· 1 entry
Katharine learned her husband was having an affair with Robin Webb, an Australian stringer for Newsweek
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1959· 1 entry
When Philip Graham took that position and the company expanded with the purchases of television stations and Newsweek magazine
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1946· 1 entry
When Eugene Meyer handed over the newspaper to his son-in-law
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1943· 1 entry
They had a daughter, Lally Morris Weymouth (1943-2025), and three sons: Donald Edward Graham (born 1945), William Welsh Graham (1948-2017) and Stephen Meyer Graham (born 1952).
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1940· 1 entry
Meyer was married to Philip Graham, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
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1917· 2 entries
In New York City to Agnes (née Ernst) and Eugene Meyer
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Born 1917-06-16.
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