Becoming.Katharine.Graham.2025.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.H264-PTerWEB Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:01,210 --> 00:00:25,570 ♪♪ 2 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,370 [Bradley] These presses normally turn out 3 00:00:35,370 --> 00:00:36,740 a half million copies 4 00:00:36,740 --> 00:00:38,960 of Washington's only morning newspaper. 5 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:40,660 But night before last, 6 00:00:40,660 --> 00:00:42,620 according to officials of The Washington Post, 7 00:00:42,620 --> 00:00:45,300 the press men set fires, slashed plates, 8 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:48,170 removed parts and destroyed equipment just hours 9 00:00:48,170 --> 00:00:50,800 after their contract expired 10 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,340 and The Post was forced to shut down. 11 00:00:53,340 --> 00:00:54,760 A spokesman for the company 12 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,140 that makes the printing and folding machines 13 00:00:57,140 --> 00:00:58,560 said he'd seen damage like this 14 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,810 in other countries due to political unrest, 15 00:01:00,810 --> 00:01:04,110 but never before in the United States. 16 00:01:04,110 --> 00:01:05,320 [crowd chanting indistinctly] 17 00:01:09,990 --> 00:01:12,990 [Katharine] We were stunned 18 00:01:12,990 --> 00:01:14,570 by having the presses so badly damaged, 19 00:01:14,570 --> 00:01:16,910 electrical wiring had been ripped out. 20 00:01:16,910 --> 00:01:19,080 Essential operating parts removed 21 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,500 and newsprint rolls slashed. 22 00:01:23,710 --> 00:01:28,920 [chanting "Boycott The Post!"] 23 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,680 [Katharine] The tensions for all of us were indescribable, 24 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,970 and the strain on me was the worst I have ever experienced. 25 00:01:39,890 --> 00:01:42,100 The uncertainties, the complications, 26 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:44,600 the violence against the people who were working 27 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,610 were all overwhelming. 28 00:01:46,610 --> 00:01:51,820 ♪♪ 29 00:01:51,820 --> 00:01:54,530 I didn't really see how we were going to manage. 30 00:01:58,030 --> 00:02:00,870 I felt desperate and secretly wondered 31 00:02:00,870 --> 00:02:05,750 if I might have blown the whole thing and lost the paper. 32 00:02:10,380 --> 00:02:11,590 [Jennings] She is one of the most powerful women 33 00:02:11,590 --> 00:02:13,010 in the country. 34 00:02:13,010 --> 00:02:15,680 She led an important American newspaper 35 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,680 through very important times. 36 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,930 [Brokaw] A woman born to great wealth and privilege, 37 00:02:19,930 --> 00:02:22,520 a woman who then struggled to find her own identity 38 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,350 when she went through a wrenching personal tragedy. 39 00:02:25,350 --> 00:02:28,520 [Walters] From homemaker to the head of a publishing empire. 40 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:29,980 [Brokaw] The woman is Katharine Graham, 41 00:02:29,980 --> 00:02:31,940 publisher of The Washington Post, 42 00:02:31,940 --> 00:02:34,650 the grand dame of American journalism. 43 00:02:34,650 --> 00:02:37,070 [Male reporter] Much has been made of Katharine Graham's social ties 44 00:02:37,070 --> 00:02:39,330 to the movers and shakers of the world 45 00:02:39,330 --> 00:02:42,870 that have included everyone from LBJ to Warren Buffett. 46 00:02:42,870 --> 00:02:45,080 [Warren] I've had a number of heroes in life, 47 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,710 and Kay Graham was definitely a hero of mine. 48 00:02:48,710 --> 00:02:52,170 [Warren] She was an accidental publisher of what became 49 00:02:52,170 --> 00:02:55,720 the most important paper in the United States 50 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,930 at a crucial time in the history of the country. 51 00:02:58,930 --> 00:03:03,060 [Walters] Your life in many ways is like two separate lives. 52 00:03:03,060 --> 00:03:06,640 How would you describe each life in a nutshell? 53 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:09,230 Doormat wife. 54 00:03:09,230 --> 00:03:11,520 Working woman. 55 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,650 [Rose] Now she has written a very candid account of her life. 56 00:03:14,650 --> 00:03:17,950 [Brokaw] Her autobiography is a stunningly candid account, 57 00:03:17,950 --> 00:03:20,200 including the affairs, a mental illness, 58 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,950 and the suicide of her husband, Phil Graham. 59 00:03:22,950 --> 00:03:25,000 I really don't suppose 60 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,580 that I meant to just tell everything to everybody. 61 00:03:28,580 --> 00:03:31,540 But once I sat down to write my story, 62 00:03:31,540 --> 00:03:35,130 I just tend to be frank and open. 63 00:03:35,130 --> 00:03:37,470 I told it the best I could. 64 00:03:37,470 --> 00:04:18,840 ♪♪ 65 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:20,760 [Newsreel announcer] The newspaper page is made up 66 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,800 within a heavy metal frame called a chase. 67 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,270 Type and pictures are now in the spaces allotted to them 68 00:04:27,270 --> 00:04:32,020 in dummies worked out well in advance. 69 00:04:32,020 --> 00:04:34,020 [Katharine] In June of 1933, 70 00:04:34,020 --> 00:04:36,150 my father bought The Washington Post 71 00:04:36,150 --> 00:04:40,660 at a public auction for $825,000. 72 00:04:40,660 --> 00:04:42,490 None of us could have known then 73 00:04:42,490 --> 00:04:46,240 what a transforming event this would be in all our lives. 74 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:51,120 [Warren] Eugene Meyer was a huge figure 75 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,130 in Wall Street, in Washington. 76 00:04:53,130 --> 00:04:55,340 He started in Wall Street with a very small sum 77 00:04:55,340 --> 00:04:58,170 and went on to become Chairman of the Fed. 78 00:04:58,170 --> 00:05:00,630 They were the first out of the World Bank. 79 00:05:00,630 --> 00:05:04,350 He was a remarkable man. 80 00:05:04,350 --> 00:05:07,600 [Katharine] From my first visit to the paper in June of 1933, 81 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,350 The Post was constantly part of my life. 82 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,270 I found myself deeply involved with the struggle 83 00:05:15,270 --> 00:05:16,730 to improve the paper. 84 00:05:16,730 --> 00:05:18,360 I read The Post daily, 85 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,530 commented, encouraged, and even criticized. 86 00:05:21,530 --> 00:05:24,370 When I left for college a year after the purchase, 87 00:05:24,370 --> 00:05:26,740 my parents and I corresponded constantly 88 00:05:26,740 --> 00:05:29,410 about what was happening. 89 00:05:29,410 --> 00:05:32,160 You graduated from the University of Chicago 90 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,710 and had your stint out at the San Francisco News. 91 00:05:34,710 --> 00:05:37,750 That sounds like a great summer you spent out there, 92 00:05:37,750 --> 00:05:39,630 and indeed you were covering 93 00:05:39,630 --> 00:05:41,880 as a young labor reporter trainee. 94 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,640 I mean, the San Francisco waterfront is a great site. 95 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,600 [Katharine] I covered a longshoreman's labor dispute. 96 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,680 It was a lockout, 97 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,190 and I g***t to know the negotiator for the unions 98 00:05:55,190 --> 00:05:58,980 and the head of the Warehouse Men's Union. 99 00:05:58,980 --> 00:06:00,980 Although it isn't correct these days, 100 00:06:00,980 --> 00:06:02,820 I socialized with them at night 101 00:06:02,820 --> 00:06:04,820 and we went up and down the waterfront, 102 00:06:04,820 --> 00:06:07,830 drinking what is known as boilermakers. 103 00:06:07,830 --> 00:06:11,500 And they were whiskey -- whiskey and beer mixed. 104 00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:13,330 And you could get a third one free 105 00:06:13,330 --> 00:06:16,000 if you paid 25 cents for the first two. 106 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,920 You know, there was always a piano player in every bar, 107 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,550 and it was a really wonderfully romantic moment. 108 00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:27,510 I had a great time. 109 00:06:27,510 --> 00:06:29,720 [Lamb] Then you returned to Washington. 110 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,270 Well, my father came out and said, 111 00:06:31,270 --> 00:06:34,020 "I thought you were coming home. 112 00:06:34,020 --> 00:06:37,100 And aren't you coming to work on The Post?" 113 00:06:39,110 --> 00:06:40,480 What did he mean? 114 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,440 And what did I think? 115 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,240 I'm sure that he wasn't talking to my sisters 116 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,700 or even my brother in this way. 117 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:50,660 I'm equally sure that neither one of us saw me as a manager. 118 00:06:50,660 --> 00:06:52,450 Looking back, 119 00:06:52,450 --> 00:06:54,370 I can only assume that I wanted to be a journalist 120 00:06:54,370 --> 00:06:56,250 and that he had a newspaper. 121 00:06:59,420 --> 00:07:02,460 And so I came and went to work 122 00:07:02,460 --> 00:07:05,130 on the editorial page of The Post, 123 00:07:05,130 --> 00:07:07,840 as the editor of the letters to the editor. 124 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:10,560 And I wrote occasional editorials, 125 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,100 the kind that tell you not to walk on the grass. 126 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:14,810 [laughter] 127...