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4 unusual facts about Katharine Graham


Dan Druen

classes of Washington D.C. During his tenure, Druen participated in the funeral services of Justice Harry Blackmun, Washington Post editor Katharine Graham, General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. and many others.

Katharine Graham

In 2001, Graham fell on a sidewalk while visiting Sun Valley, Idaho.

The Grahams were important members of the Washington social scene, becoming friends with John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and Nancy Reagan among many others.

Miami Lakes, Florida

Former U.S. Senator Bob Graham, younger half brother of family patriarch William "Bill" Graham, is one of the owners, and the late publisher of the Washington Post, Katharine Graham, had a share by marriage.


Eugene Meyer

He married Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, a Lutheran, in 1910; they had five children, including the future Katharine Graham and another daughter Florence Meyer (1911-1962) (Mrs. Oskar Homolka).


see also

Great Catherine

Katharine the Great, Deborah Davis' unauthorized biography of Katharine Graham; published in 1979 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; withdrawn; subject of 1982 breach of contract lawsuit; republished by National Press in 1987 and Sheridan Square Press in 1991