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...