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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts) Wed Oct 22, 2014, 11:57 PM Oct 2014

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PBS Nweshour: Remembering Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee

Published on Oct 22, 2014
Washington Post editor, Ben Bradlee, who was best known for leading the paper during its breaking of the Watergate scandal, died Tuesday at 93 in his home in Washington. By publishing the most controversial reports of the 1970s, Bradlee ushered the Post’s transition from a struggling local paper to a nationally revered publication. Judy Woodruff remembers Bradlee with members of Washington media.