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Prominent Journalist Lally Weymouth Dies at 82

9/30/2025

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Lally Weymouth, prominent journalist and Graham family member, died in Manhattan at 82 from pancreatic cancer.
She secured interviews with leaders such as Saddam Hussein, Yasir Arafat, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Slobodan Milosevic.
Her foreign reporting appeared in The Los Angeles Times and Newsweek; she never led The Washington Post, despite family ties, and hosted dinner parties connecting political and literary elites.

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Lally Weymouth, prominent journalist and Graham family member, died in Manhattan at 82 from pancreatic cancer.
She secured interviews with leaders such as Saddam Hussein, Yasir Arafat, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Slobodan Milosevic.
Her foreign reporting appeared in The Los Angeles Times and Newsweek; she never led The Washington Post, despite family ties, and hosted dinner parties connecting political and literary elites.