had enlarged its military actions in Vietnam without informing the media and in turn the public. In part, the Papers revealed that the U.S. Department of Defense study detailing the history of the United States political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. After his death, Katharine Graham stepped in to take control of the newspaper. During our investigation into The Post true story, we learned that Philip committed suicide with a 28-gauge shotgun at the couple's home in Glen Welby. On August 3, 1963, he was released for the weekend. and entered the Chestnut Lodge psychiatric facility. However, while at a newspaper conference in Phoenix, he is said to have suffered a nervous breakdown. Philip planned to divorce Katharine for Webb and started the process of dividing up the couple's assets.
On Christmas Eve in 1962, she discovered he was having an affair with Newsweek freelance journalist Robin Webb. Katharine's husband Philip battled alcoholism and mental illness throughout the marriage. In fact, it never crossed my mind that he might have viewed me as someone to take on an important job at the paper." "Far from troubling me that my father thought of my husband and not me, it pleased me. In her autobiography Personal History, Katharine said that she never felt slighted by the fact that her father did not give the paper to her. Katharine's father, Eugene Meyer, handed The Washington Post over to his son-in-law Philip in 1946, making Philip publisher. Katharine Meyer married Philip Graham on June 5, 1940. Did Katharine Graham really take over the newspaper after her husband committed suicide?
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