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

00:00:01,210 --> 00:00:25,♪♪

00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,[Bradley] These presses
normally turn out

00:00:35,370 --> 00:00:36,a half million copies

00:00:36,740 --> 00:00:38,of Washington's
only morning newspaper.

00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:40,But night before last,

00:00:40,660 --> 00:00:42,according to officials
of The Washington Post,

00:00:42,620 --> 00:00:45,the press men set fires,
slashed plates,

00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:48,removed parts and
destroyed equipment just hours

00:00:48,170 --> 00:00:50,after their contract expired

00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,and The Post was forced
to shut down.

00:00:53,340 --> 00:00:54,A spokesman for the company

00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:57,that makes the printing
and folding machines

00:00:57,140 --> 00:00:58,said he'd seen damage like this

00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,in other countries
due to political unrest,

00:01:00,810 --> 00:01:04,but never before
in the United States.

00:01:04,110 --> 00:01:05,[crowd chanting indistinctly]

00:01:09,990 --> 00:01:12,[Katharine] We were stunned

00:01:12,990 --> 00:01:14,by having the presses
so badly damaged,

00:01:14,570 --> 00:01:16,electrical wiring
had been ripped out.

00:01:16,910 --> 00:01:19,Essential operating
parts removed

00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,and newsprint rolls slashed.

00:01:23,710 --> 00:01:28,[chanting "Boycott The Post!"]

00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,[Katharine] The tensions for all
of us were indescribable,

00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,and the strain on me was the
worst I have ever experienced.

00:01:39,890 --> 00:01:42,The uncertainties,
the complications,

00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:44,the violence against
the people who were working

00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,were all overwhelming.

00:01:46,610 --> 00:01:51,♪♪

00:01:51,820 --> 00:01:54,I didn't really see
how we were going to manage.

00:01:58,030 --> 00:02:00,I felt desperate
and secretly wondered

00:02:00,870 --> 00:02:05,if I might have blown the
whole thing and lost the paper.

00:02:10,380 --> 00:02:11,[Jennings] She is one
of the most powerful women

00:02:11,590 --> 00:02:13,in the country.

00:02:13,010 --> 00:02:15,She led an important
American newspaper

00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,through very important times.

00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,[Brokaw] A woman born
to great wealth and privilege,

00:02:19,930 --> 00:02:22,a woman who then struggled
to find her own identity

00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,when she went through
a wrenching personal tragedy.

00:02:25,350 --> 00:02:28,[Walters] From homemaker to
the head of a publishing empire.

00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:29,[Brokaw] The woman is
Katharine Graham,

00:02:29,980 --> 00:02:31,publisher
of The Washington Post,

00:02:31,940 --> 00:02:34,the grand dame
of American journalism.

00:02:34,650 --> 00:02:37,[Male reporter]
Much has been made of Katharine Graham's social ties

00:02:37,070 --> 00:02:39,to the movers and shakers
of the world

00:02:39,330 --> 00:02:42,that have included everyone
from LBJ to Warren Buffett.

00:02:42,870 --> 00:02:45,[Warren] I've had a number
of heroes in life,

00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,and Kay Graham was
definitely a hero of mine.

00:02:48,710 --> 00:02:52,[Warren] She was an accidental
publisher of what became

00:02:52,170 --> 00:02:55,the most important paper
in the United States

00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,at a crucial time
in the history of the country.

00:02:58,930 --> 00:03:03,[Walters] Your life in many ways
is like two separate lives.

00:03:03,060 --> 00:03:06,How would you describe
each life in a nutshell?

00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:09,Doormat wife.

00:03:09,230 --> 00:03:11,Working woman.

00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,[Rose] Now she has written a
very candid account of her life.

00:03:14,650 --> 00:03:17,[Brokaw] Her autobiography is
a stunningly candid account,

00:03:17,950 --> 00:03:20,including the affairs,
a mental illness,

00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,and the suicide of her husband,
Phil Graham.

00:03:22,950 --> 00:03:25,I really don't suppose

00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,that I meant to just tell
everything to everybody.

00:03:28,580 --> 00:03:31,But once I sat down
to write my story,

00:03:31,540 --> 00:03:35,I just tend to be frank
and open.

00:03:35,130 --> 00:03:37,I told it the best I could.

00:03:37,470 --> 00:04:18,♪♪

00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:20,[Newsreel announcer] The
newspaper page is made up

00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,within a heavy metal frame
called a chase.

00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,Type and pictures are now
in the spaces allotted to them

00:04:27,270 --> 00:04:32,in dummies
worked out well in advance.

00:04:32,020 --> 00:04:34,[Katharine] In June of 1933,

00:04:34,020 --> 00:04:36,my father bought
The Washington Post

00:04:36,150 --> 00:04:40,at a public auction
for $825,000.

00:04:40,660 --> 00:04:42,None of us
could have known then

00:04:42,490 --> 00:04:46,what a transforming event
this would be in all our lives.

00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:51,[Warren] Eugene Meyer
was a huge figure

00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,in Wall Street, in Washington.

00:04:53,130 --> 00:04:55,He started in Wall Street
with a very small sum

00:04:55,340 --> 00:04:58,and went on to become
Chairman of the Fed.

00:04:58,170 --> 00:05:00,They were the first out
of the World Bank.

00:05:00,630 --> 00:05:04,He was a remarkable man.

00:05:04,350 --> 00:05:07,[Katharine] From my first visit
to the paper in June of 1933,

00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,The Post was constantly part
of my life.

00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,I found myself deeply involved
with the struggle

00:05:15,270 --> 00:05:16,to improve the paper.

00:05:16,730 --> 00:05:18,I read The Post daily,

00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,commented, encouraged,
and even criticized.

00:05:21,530 --> 00:05:24,When I left for college
a year after the purchase,

00:05:24,370 --> 00:05:26,my parents and I
corresponded constantly

00:05:26,740 --> 00:05:29,about what was happening.

00:05:29,410 --> 00:05:32,You graduated
from the University of Chicago

00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,and had your stint out
at the San Francisco News.

00:05:34,710 --> 00:05:37,That sounds like a great summer
you spent out there,

00:05:37,750 --> 00:05:39,and indeed you were covering

00:05:39,630 --> 00:05:41,as a young
labor reporter trainee.

00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,I mean, the San Francisco
waterfront is a great site.

00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,[Katharine] I covered
a longshoreman's labor dispute.

00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,It was a lockout,

00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,and I g***t to know
the negotiator for the unions

00:05:55,190 --> 00:05:58,and the head
of the Warehouse Men's Union.

00:05:58,980 --> 00:06:00,Although it isn't correct
these days,

00:06:00,980 --> 00:06:02,I socialized with them at night

00:06:02,820 --> 00:06:04,and we went up
and down the waterfront,

00:06:04,820 --> 00:06:07,drinking what is known
as boilermakers.

00:06:07,830 --> 00:06:11,And they were whiskey --
whiskey and beer mixed.

00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:13,And you could get
a third one free

00:06:13,330 --> 00:06:16,if you paid 25 cents
for the first two.

00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,You know, there was always
a piano player in every bar,

00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,and it was a really
wonderfully romantic moment.

00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:27,I had a great time.

00:06:27,510 --> 00:06:29,[Lamb] Then you returned
to Washington.

00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,Well, my father
came out and said,

00:06:31,270 --> 00:06:34,"I thought
you were coming home.

00:06:34,020 --> 00:06:37,And aren't you coming
to work on The Post?"

00:06:39,110 --> 00:06:40,What did he mean?

00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,And what did I think?

00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:44,I'm sure that
he wasn't talking to my sisters

00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,or even my brother in this way.

00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:50,I'm equally sure that neither
one of us saw me as a manager.

00:06:50,660 --> 00:06:52,Looking back,

00:06:52,450 --> 00:06:54,I can only assume that I
wanted to be a journalist

00:06:54,370 --> 00:06:56,and that he had a newspaper.

00:06:59,420 --> 00:07:02,And so I came
and went to work

00:07:02,460 --> 00:07:05,on the editorial page
of The Post,

00:07:05,130 --> 00:07:07,as the editor of the letters
to the editor.

00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:10,And I wrote
occasional editorials,

00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,the kind that tell you
not to walk on the grass.

00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:14,[laughter]

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