Posted on 12/26/2017 11:44:06 AM PST by COUNTrecount
His father, Phil Graham, married the heiress of the Washington Post’s owner, Eugene Meyer.
Phil Graham had an interesting history, served in the Pacific as intelligence officer with the Far East Air Force, set up in 1944.
He was also one of the clique that helped pave the path for JFK presidential run and remained and advisor and speech writer for JFK and Johnson.
As such an intimate of Jack Kennedy he had a first row seat to JFKs not so secret philandering.
Leading up to his purported suicide, Katherine Graham in her biography claimed Phil suffered from depression.
Among the events preceeding the suicide...
“....Through the Post Company’s Newsweek arm, Graham eventually met Australian journalist Robin Webb, and in 1962 they began an affair.
In 1963, he and Webb flew to Arizona; he appeared at a newspaper publishing convention inebriated and/or manic.
At the microphone he made a number of provocative comments, including the revelation that Kennedy was sleeping with Mary Pinchot Meyer [ later found murdered along the C&O Canal towpath in posh Georgetown neighborhood ].
His assistant, James Truitt, called for his doctor, Leslie Farber, who flew in by private jet, as did (subsequently) Graham’s wife. Graham was sedated, bound in a straitjacket, and flown back to Washington.
He was committed for five days to Chestnut Lodge, a psychiatric hospital in Rockville, Maryland.
Graham then left his wife for Robin Webb, announced to his friends that he planned to divorce his wife and immediately remarry, and indicated that he wanted to purchase sole control of the Post Company...
Maybe some enterprising WAPO reporter will seek to emulate Woodward and Bernstein and revist the demise of Phil Graham and ....
Just kidding.
How much of the “Washington Post fortune” was actually left?
Mother dies of massive head injury...................hmmmmmmmmmm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/04/AR2005080400963.html
Katharine Graham Dies at 84
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Katharine Graham, 84, who led The Washington Post Co. to prominence in the worlds of journalism and business and became one of the most influential and admired women of her generation, died yesterday morning at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho.
Mrs. Graham, former chairman and chief executive officer of The Post Co. and former publisher of The Washington Post, died at 11:56 a.m. of head injuries suffered when she fell on a sidewalk Saturday in Sun Valley, Idaho, where she was attending an annual conference of media business leaders. Her son, Donald, The Post Co.’s current chairman and CEO, also was attending the conference. He and many other members of the family were at the hospital in Boise when she died
Even more so since the portrayal is likely picture perfect.
Meryl would gag a maggot. I’ve never seen anything attractive about her.
I wish I felt more sympathy ... but I don’t. I didn’t cry when Goebbels offed himself either.
Could it be he was another liberal molester? If he was, they’ll keep quiet about it. No use pointing the finger at a stiff.
When an immediate family member commits suicide, that changes the perspective of most surviving members who were close to that person. From that day on, suicide often becomes and remains a conscious choice in personal stress management. The average person does not dwell on this as a way to achieve inner peace.
The Ernest Hemingway family is but one famous example.
There have been at least five suicides in that family over four generations. Ernest’s father, Clarence, siblings Ursula, Leicester, Ernest himself in 1961, and granddaughter Margaux.
Depression and/or bi-polar mania are often present in such families as well. When acute depression goes undiagnosed or untreated, this leads to fatalistic thinking, and makes such an individual more prone to acting out in a moment of profound hopelessness.
This article reads like it was written by one of the dead Grahams.
Guilty conscience about all that fake news, like John Kasich’s article today in the Compost insulting Trump for his handling of John and Obama’s failure to keep North Korea from getting nuclear weapons?
No chance that the film version will recount that Phil Graham was actually told about the venona cables. He knew that McCarthy was correct.
Its my guess that the Venona Cables is what caused the split between Phil and Catherine Graham.
The cables proved to Phil Graham that McCarthy was correct. Catherine was a determined communist however and would have none of it.
this is why Phil graham wound up hanging with the Kennedy’s who were on McCarthy’s side and ardent anti communists.
Celebrities ‘relentlessly campaign for Democrats’, and they just as relentlessly create in their art what advances and models Deoc-rat’s agenda’s and values.
There's the problem right there..."fortune".Anyone familiar with the recent ownership/sales history of the Boston Globe could strongly suspect that the Compost ain't worth much today.Well,at least he didn't jump out a window like in 1929.
Let me guess. He was about to release a major expose of Hillary Clinton, that would have put her behind bars forever?
Ordinarily, I would say this is sad, but I remember the newspaper his family owned that destroyed South Vietnam through the Watergate scandal. So be it, sic transit Gloria mundi.
Look at the facts surrounding the daddy's suicide. He was about to dump Katherine for a younger model. Instead, he conveniently turned up dead, and she got everything.
Suicide? or Hit?
I see you beat me to the point, and provided more detail, as well.
Sounds to me like she may have had something to do with his demise and Kennedy too
He suddenly realized that since the WP hasn’t printed even one positive (or even neutral) article about the President despite the facts the once vaunted reputation of the WP is lost forever...
People take life too seriously.
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