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Preview: 3/5/2026 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A painfully shy woman's accidental rise to power and how it changed history.
Becoming Katharine Graham tells the story of a painfully shy woman's accidental rise to power and how it changed history. After a family tragedy, Kay evolved from a "doormat wife" into a legendary newspaper publisher. Nixon's nemesis during Watergate, she fought for truth, broke down barriers in a sexist world, and won a Pulitzer Prize, inspiring generations with her courage and resilience.
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Trailer
Preview: 3/5/2026 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Becoming Katharine Graham tells the story of a painfully shy woman's accidental rise to power and how it changed history. After a family tragedy, Kay evolved from a "doormat wife" into a legendary newspaper publisher. Nixon's nemesis during Watergate, she fought for truth, broke down barriers in a sexist world, and won a Pulitzer Prize, inspiring generations with her courage and resilience.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- She was an accidental publisher of the most important paper in the United States.
Everybody that was talking to her had an angle.
- A woman in a man's world.
She was the perfect target.
- [President Nixon] No reporter from the Washington Post is ever to be in the White House.
Is that clear?
- They wanted to do as much damage as they could do to us.
I really hate fights, but when cornered, then I fight.
(intense music)
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