Katharine Graham
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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.
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Katharine Meyer in 1926
Washington Post owner Phil Graham (far right), editor J. Russell Wiggins (left), and publisher John W. Sweeterman with President Kennedy in 1961
Graham with a Dutch news official and U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, 1975
Graham's headstone (far left), located beside the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel in Washington, D.C.
Katherine Graham DC Memorial CallboxAwards 11
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Bob WoodwardAlso won Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
Arthur M. SchlesingerAlso won Pulitzer Prize for BiographyAnja NiedringhausAlso won Courage in Journalism Award
Al RokerAlso won Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
Elisabeth Kübler-RossAlso won Ladies' Home Journal Women of the Year
Richard LugarAlso won Four Freedoms Award - Freedom MedalAbout this person
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 of the Associated Press.
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