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- Birth nameFred Patterson Graham
- Fred Graham was born on October 6, 1931 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He was a writer, known for CBS Reports (1959), Trial Story (1991) and What's It All About? (1973). He was married to Skila Harris and Sheila Lucile McCrea. He died on December 28, 2019 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- SpousesSkila Harris(September 11, 1982 - December 28, 2019) (his death)Sheila Lucile McCrea(December 28, 1961 - 1982) (divorced, 3 children)
- Legal reporter and correspondent for the New York Times, CBS News and Court TV. He covered the Supreme Court for the Times in the 1960s, where he reported on the expansion of civil rights. CBS hired him away from the Times to report on the legal issues raised by the Watergate scandal. He helped create Court TV in 1991.
- He attended a two-room elementary school in Texarkana, Arkansas, where his classmates included future billionaire and presidential candidate H. Ross Perot.
- He graduated from high school in Nashville, and received a bachelor's degree from Yale University. After Marine Corps service in Korea and Japan, he received a law degree from Vanderbilt University. He continued his law studies at the University of Oxford as a Fulbright scholar, and practiced law for several years in Nashville.
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