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William Graham, a lawyer, philanthropist, investor and son of a former Washington Post publisher, committed suicide last Wednesday, according to his brother – reminiscent of the suicide of his father more than 50 years ago. ...Graham’s mother, Katharine, ran The Washington Post when it won a Pulitzer Price for exposing then-President Richard Nixon’s Watergate Scandal. She is also portrayed in the upcoming film “The Post,” which tells the story of the paper’s efforts to publish the “Pentagon Papers” in 1971. The Graham family had owned the newspaper since Graham’s grandfather Eugene Meyer bought it in 1933. The family sold the...

Washington Post heir, 69, shoots himself dead, echoing his father's own 1963 suicide, days before Meryl Streep movie about the family was released William W. Graham committed suicide on December 20 at the age of 69 His Washington Post publisher father Phil Graham killed himself back in 1963 Graham's mother Katharine then served as publisher for the next two decades His death came days after a Meryl Streep film was released about his mother The heir to the Washington Post fortune, William W. Graham, committed suicide last week, echoing his publisher father's death in 1963. Graham, a 69-year-old lawyer, was...