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Daughter of aristocratic titan Averell Harriman, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer was born to wealth, beauty, and blueblood values. But when her father plunged into the politics of World War II as President Roosevelt’s special envoy to Britain and later the ambassador to Russia, she went with him, going from working as a wide-eyed ingénue reporter to enchanting both Churchill and Stalin.
17 Feb 2011 · Kathleen Harriman Mortimer, a daughter of W. Averell Harriman, died on Thursday at 93. The death, at her cottage in Arden, N.Y., was confirmed by her son David Mortimer. Mrs. Mortimer also had a home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Though she was a far less visible public presence than her father — a United States ambassador to Moscow ...
1 Okt 2020 · It was here, in this despoiled palace in February 1945, that Kathleen Harriman, the glamorous, 27-year-old daughter of the fourth-richest man in America, now stood. Thousands of workers crowded the palace and the gardens, sawing, hammering, painting, fumigating, polishing, and planting, not to mention installing much-needed plumbing.
Roosevelt Boettiger, and Kathleen Harriman at the Yalta Conference (Livadia Palace, February 1945). Photos of Kathleen Harriman courtesy of David H. Mortimer. 174121_R1_TEXT.indd 15 11/2/20 11:59 PM. The tsar and his family visited Livadia only four times before they were murdered, in 1918, in a basement
Kathleen Harriman Mortimer (* 7. Dezember 1917 in Arden, New York; † 17. Februar 2011 ebenda) war eine amerikanische Multimillionärin, die als Tochter des Unternehmers, Diplomaten und Politikers W. Averell Harriman und später als Gesellschaftsdame Gegenstand der Presseberichterstattung war.
Kathleen Lanier Harriman was born on Dec. 7, 1917, the younger of two daughters of Mr. Harriman and his first wife, Kitty Lanier Lawrance. ... become Averell Harriman’s third wife. In 1947, Miss Harriman married Stanley Grafton Mortimer Jr., an heir to the Standard Oil fortune. Afterward, she largely dropped from public view, though her ...
26 Apr 2023 · In 1952, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer was called to testify before a bipartisan congressional committee investigating the Katyn massacre, which also examined and sharply criticized VOA’s news reporting about this and other communist atrocities and human rights violations. In her testimony, she admitted that in 1944 she wrongly had blamed the ...
