Becoming Katharine Graham Amzn -pterweb (2025) Subtitles

At 00:00:01,210, Character said: ♪♪

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At 00:00:33,280, Character said: [Bradley] These presses
normally turn out

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At 00:00:35,370, Character said: a half million copies

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At 00:00:36,740, Character said: of Washington's
only morning newspaper.

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At 00:00:38,960, Character said: But night before last,

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At 00:00:40,660, Character said: according to officials
of The Washington Post,

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At 00:00:42,620, Character said: the press men set fires,
slashed plates,

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At 00:00:45,300, Character said: removed parts and
destroyed equipment just hours

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At 00:00:48,170, Character said: after their contract expired

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At 00:00:50,800, Character said: and The Post was forced
to shut down.

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At 00:00:53,340, Character said: A spokesman for the company

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At 00:00:54,760, Character said: that makes the printing
and folding machines

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At 00:00:57,140, Character said: said he'd seen damage like this

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At 00:00:58,560, Character said: in other countries
due to political unrest,

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At 00:01:00,810, Character said: but never before
in the United States.

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At 00:01:04,110, Character said: [crowd chanting indistinctly]

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At 00:01:09,990, Character said: [Katharine] We were stunned

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At 00:01:12,990, Character said: by having the presses
so badly damaged,

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At 00:01:14,570, Character said: electrical wiring
had been ripped out.

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At 00:01:16,910, Character said: Essential operating
parts removed

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At 00:01:19,080, Character said: and newsprint rolls slashed.

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At 00:01:23,710, Character said: [chanting "Boycott The Post!"]

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At 00:01:28,920, Character said: [Katharine] The tensions for all
of us were indescribable,

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At 00:01:31,680, Character said: and the strain on me was the
worst I have ever experienced.

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At 00:01:39,890, Character said: The uncertainties,
the complications,

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At 00:01:42,100, Character said: the violence against
the people who were working

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At 00:01:44,600, Character said: were all overwhelming.

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At 00:01:46,610, Character said: ♪♪

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At 00:01:51,820, Character said: I didn't really see
how we were going to manage.

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At 00:01:58,030, Character said: I felt desperate
and secretly wondered

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At 00:02:00,870, Character said: if I might have blown the
whole thing and lost the paper.

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At 00:02:10,380, Character said: [Jennings] She is one
of the most powerful women

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At 00:02:11,590, Character said: in the country.

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At 00:02:13,010, Character said: She led an important
American newspaper

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At 00:02:15,680, Character said: through very important times.

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At 00:02:17,680, Character said: [Brokaw] A woman born
to great wealth and privilege,

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At 00:02:19,930, Character said: a woman who then struggled
to find her own identity

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At 00:02:22,520, Character said: when she went through
a wrenching personal tragedy.

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At 00:02:25,350, Character said: [Walters] From homemaker to
the head of a publishing empire.

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At 00:02:28,520, Character said: [Brokaw] The woman is
Katharine Graham,

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At 00:02:29,980, Character said: publisher
of The Washington Post,

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At 00:02:31,940, Character said: the grand dame
of American journalism.

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At 00:02:34,650, Character said: [Male reporter]
Much has been made of Katharine Graham's social ties

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At 00:02:37,070, Character said: to the movers and shakers
of the world

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At 00:02:39,330, Character said: that have included everyone
from LBJ to Warren Buffett.

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At 00:02:42,870, Character said: [Warren] I've had a number
of heroes in life,

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At 00:02:45,080, Character said: and Kay Graham was
definitely a hero of mine.

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At 00:02:48,710, Character said: [Warren] She was an accidental
publisher of what became

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At 00:02:52,170, Character said: the most important paper
in the United States

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At 00:02:55,720, Character said: at a crucial time
in the history of the country.

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At 00:02:58,930, Character said: [Walters] Your life in many ways
is like two separate lives.

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At 00:03:03,060, Character said: How would you describe
each life in a nutshell?

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At 00:03:06,640, Character said: Doormat wife.

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At 00:03:09,230, Character said: Working woman.

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At 00:03:11,520, Character said: [Rose] Now she has written a
very candid account of her life.

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At 00:03:14,650, Character said: [Brokaw] Her autobiography is
a stunningly candid account,

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At 00:03:17,950, Character said: including the affairs,
a mental illness,

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At 00:03:20,200, Character said: and the suicide of her husband,
Phil Graham.

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At 00:03:22,950, Character said: I really don't suppose

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At 00:03:25,000, Character said: that I meant to just tell
everything to everybody.

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At 00:03:28,580, Character said: But once I sat down
to write my story,

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At 00:03:31,540, Character said: I just tend to be frank
and open.

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At 00:03:35,130, Character said: I told it the best I could.

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At 00:03:37,470, Character said: ♪♪

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At 00:04:18,840, Character said: [Newsreel announcer] The
newspaper page is made up

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At 00:04:20,760, Character said: within a heavy metal frame
called a chase.

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At 00:04:23,800, Character said: Type and pictures are now
in the spaces allotted to them

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At 00:04:27,270, Character said: in dummies
worked out well in advance.

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At 00:04:32,020, Character said: [Katharine] In June of 1933,

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At 00:04:34,020, Character said: my father bought
The Washington Post

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At 00:04:36,150, Character said: at a public auction
for $825,000.

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At 00:04:40,660, Character said: None of us
could have known then

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At 00:04:42,490, Character said: what a transforming event
this would be in all our lives.

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At 00:04:48,500, Character said: [Warren] Eugene Meyer
was a huge figure

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At 00:04:51,120, Character said: in Wall Street, in Washington.

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At 00:04:53,130, Character said: He started in Wall Street
with a very small sum

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At 00:04:55,340, Character said: and went on to become
Chairman of the Fed.

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At 00:04:58,170, Character said: They were the first out
of the World Bank.

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At 00:05:00,630, Character said: He was a remarkable man.

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At 00:05:04,350, Character said: [Katharine] From my first visit
to the paper in June of 1933,

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At 00:05:07,600, Character said: The Post was constantly part
of my life.

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At 00:05:12,440, Character said: I found myself deeply involved
with the struggle

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At 00:05:15,270, Character said: to improve the paper.

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At 00:05:16,730, Character said: I read The Post daily,

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At 00:05:18,360, Character said: commented, encouraged,
and even criticized.

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At 00:05:21,530, Character said: When I left for college
a year after the purchase,

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At 00:05:24,370, Character said: my parents and I
corresponded constantly

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At 00:05:26,740, Character said: about what was happening.

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At 00:05:29,410, Character said: You graduated
from the University of Chicago

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At 00:05:32,160, Character said: and had your stint out
at the San Francisco News.

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At 00:05:34,710, Character said: That sounds like a great summer
you spent out there,

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At 00:05:37,750, Character said: and indeed you were covering

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At 00:05:39,630, Character said: as a young
labor reporter trainee.

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At 00:05:41,880, Character said: I mean, the San Francisco
waterfront is a great site.

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At 00:05:45,640, Character said: [Katharine] I covered
a longshoreman's labor dispute.

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At 00:05:49,600, Character said: It was a lockout,

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At 00:05:51,680, Character said: and I g***t to know
the negotiator for the unions

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At 00:05:55,190, Character said: and the head
of the Warehouse Men's Union.

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At 00:05:58,980, Character said: Although it isn't correct
these days,

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At 00:06:00,980, Character said: I socialized with them at night

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At 00:06:02,820, Character said: and we went up
and down the waterfront,

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At 00:06:04,820, Character said: drinking what is known
as boilermakers.

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At 00:06:07,830, Character said: And they were whiskey --
whiskey and beer mixed.

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At 00:06:11,500, Character said: And you could get
a third one free

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At 00:06:13,330, Character said: if you paid 25 cents
for the first two.

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At 00:06:18,920, Character said: You know, there was always
a piano player in every bar,

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At 00:06:21,920, Character said: and it was a really
wonderfully romantic moment.

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At 00:06:24,550, Character said: I had a great time.

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At 00:06:27,510, Character said: [Lamb] Then you returned
to Washington.

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At 00:06:29,720, Character said: Well, my father
came out and said,

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At 00:06:31,270, Character said: "I thought
you were coming home.

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At 00:06:34,020, Character said: And aren't you coming
to work on The Post?"

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At 00:06:39,110, Character said: What did he mean?

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At 00:06:40,480, Character said: And what did I think?

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At 00:06:42,440, Character said: I'm sure that
he wasn't talking to my sisters

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At 00:06:44,240, Character said: or even my brother in this way.

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At 00:06:46,700, Character said: I'm equally sure that neither
one of us saw me as a manager.

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At 00:06:50,660, Character said: Looking back,

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At 00:06:52,450, Character said: I can only assume that I
wanted to be a journalist

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At 00:06:54,370, Character said: and that he had a newspaper.

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At 00:06:59,420, Character said: And so I came
and went to work

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At 00:07:02,460, Character said: on the editorial page
of The Post,

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At 00:07:05,130, Character said: as the editor of the letters
to the editor.

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At 00:07:07,840, Character said: And I wrote
occasional editorials,

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At 00:07:10,560, Character said: the kind that tell you
not to walk on the grass.

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At 00:07:13,100, Character said: [laughter]

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