Fred Patterson Graham (October 6, 1931 – December 28, 2019) was an American legal affairs journalist, television news anchor, and attorney.
[2] In January 1963, he moved to Washington D.C. to serve as the chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments.
[1][2] In addition to the Supreme Court, he covered the Justice Department in an era of racial tensions and violence.
[2] In this capacity, he covered the Watergate scandal, President Richard M. Nixon's resignation, and abortion rights.
[1] He also had a weekly radio show, The Law and You, and was a substitute anchor for CBS Morning News, Face the Nation, and Nightwatch.
[1] Graham found a new position as a local news anchor of WKRN-TV, the ABC affiliate in Nashville, for two years.
[1] In this memoir of his twenty years as a broadcast journalist, he stated that network news had become “infotainment, the equivalent of a well-produced video version of a tabloid.”[1] In 1991, cameras were allowed in the courtroom for criminal trials.
[2] He wrote articles for magazines Esquire, Harper’s, and The New Republic, as well as the newspapers Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.