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Feb 8, 2024 · Katharine Graham’s Husband, Phil, died on August 3, 1963, at the age of 48 due to a gunshot wound, which he inflicted on himself with a 28-gauge shotgun. He didn’t leave any note behind to reveal why he took such a step, but the people close to him knew of his mental health struggles and how his condition had been worsening with time.
Aug 28, 2024 · This is the story of how the family and the brilliant, sometimes difficult, people they hired and befriended fought to make The Washington Post and the other communications assets they bought successful. Part of it is the story of Kay’s marriage to Phil Graham from 1940 until his death by suicide in 1963.
- Maureen Reilly
Jul 17, 2001 · Adulthood. On June 5, 1940, she married Philip L. Graham, a Harvard Law School graduate and clerk for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.
Feb 27, 2018 · Traumatized by her husband's death and unsure of her ability to lead the enterprise, Kay Graham had a difficult decision to make: Sell the paper or run it herself.
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For nearly 60 years, Katharine Graham, Donald Graham’s mother, presided over the grand beaux-arts house at 2920 R St. in Georgetown, first as the young bride of Philip Graham, the publisher of the Post, and then as publisher herself after her husband’s death.
Graham’s mother Katharine took over the newspaper as publisher after her husband's death. She led The Washington Post newspaper for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that helped expose misdeeds of President Richard Nixon , who was persuaded to resign.
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Jan 26, 2021 · Her husband made Presidents, and she brought them down. Famously among the first female publishers of a major American newspaper, Katharine “Kay” Graham (born Meyer) achieved a great many things over the course of her dynamic life.
