Wash Post son kills self
WILLIAM GRAHAM, a member of the family that owned The Washington Post for eight decades, committed suicide, according to his brother.
Donald Graham, a former publisher and chief executive of The Post, told the newspaper that his brother shot himself in Los Angeles on Dec. 20. William Graham was 69.
William Graham worked as a lawyer in Washington before moving to Los Angeles, where he taught trial law, according to The Post.
His mother, Katharine Graham, was The Post’s publisher when the newspaper's coverage of Watergate helped bring down President Richard Nixon in the 1970s. His father, Philip Graham — who had previously ran The Post — committed suicide in August 1963, after a stay in a psychiatric hospital.
William Graham’s death came days before the release of the movie “The Post,” which chronicled the newspaper’s fight with the government over the release of the Pentagon Papers. Oscar-winner Meryl Streep plays Katharine Graham in the movie.
His grandfather Eugene Meyer bought the paper in 1933, and it stayed within the family for 80 years.
Graham was active in the anti-war movement during the Vietnam era and graduated from UCLA Law School after attending Stanford, according to The Post.
He spent 20 years operating an investment firm that he founded, according to the newspaper. THAT’S ONE way to recycle a bottle.
Cops arrested an off-duty city sanitation worker for using a plastic bottle to attack a man at a Brooklyn parking lot, police said Tuesday.
Robert Leslie hit his victim over the head with the bottle during an argument on W. Fifth St. in Gravesend about 10:30 p.m. Monday, cops said.
The victim suffered a minor injury and Leslie, 33, is charged with assault, authorities said.
A Sanitation Department spokesman said the agency was looking into the incident.