Lally Weymouth, journalist and daughter of The Washington Post’s Graham family, has died

Lally Weymouth, the daughter of the late Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham who forged her own journalistic career that included interviewing Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi among other world leaders, has died. The cause was pancreatic cancer, her daughter Katharine Weymouth told The Washington Post. Born Elizabeth Morris Graham, Lally Weymouth was most recently a senior associate editor at the paper. In 2015, the May Chidiac Foundation, a Lebanon-based nonprofit organization, awarded Weymouth their Antoine Choueiri Special Tribute for Lifetime Achievement. Weymouth’s grandfather, Don Graham, bought the venerable Washington Post at a 1933 bankruptcy sale.