Lally Weymouth, Washington Post journalist from storied Graham family, dies at 82

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Lally Weymouth, a roving journalist and high-society fixture who interviewed diplomats, dictators and other world leaders for The Washington Post and Newsweek — publications that her family, the Grahams, owned for decades — died Sept. 29 at her home in Manhattan. She was 82.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, said her daughter Katharine Weymouth.

As the granddaughter, daughter, sister and mother of five Washington Post publishers, Ms. Weymouth moved in social circles that helped shape American media and government, from the Camelot age of John F. Kennedy to the dawn of the Trump era more than 50 years later.

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