Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)
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Memorial Page for Ben Bradlee
Aug 26, 1921 – Oct 21, 2014(93 years)Died in:Washington, D.C., District of Columbia
Executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991
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Ben Bradlee (* August 26, 1921 in Boston; † October 21, 2014 in Washington, D.C.) was an executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991. He was 93 years old. He had 3 wives. His education included Harvard University, St. Mark's School, Harvard College, Dexter School and Eliot House. His awards include Presidential Medal of Freedom and Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. His cause of death was Alzheimer's disease. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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5 EventsBorn in Boston, Suffolk County
1921Married Sally Quinn
1978until 2014
Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
1998Presidential Medal of Freedom
2013Died in Washington, D.C., District of Columbia (Alzheimer's disease)
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- Antoinette Pinchot
- Frederick Bradlee
- Josephine de Gersdorff
- Frederic Bradlee
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Ben Bradlee. Forever remembered.