Bill Graham (promoter)

=== Bitburg controversy ===
{{Main|Bitburg controversy}}
Graham's status as a [[Holocaust]] survivor came into play in 1985, during the presidency of [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref name=":2" /> When Graham learned that Reagan intended to lay a wreath at [[Bitburg|Bitburg's World War II cemetery]] where [[SS]] soldiers were also buried, he took out a full-page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper in protest.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Meline|first=Gabe|date=March 16, 2016|title=Bill Graham: The Personality No Museum Could Possibly Contain|url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/11409279/bill-graham-the-personality-no-museum-could-possibly-contain|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-19|website=KQED|language=en-us|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728171624/https://www.kqed.org/arts/11409279/bill-graham-the-personality-no-museum-could-possibly-contain |archive-date=July 28, 2019 }}</ref> During the same month that Reagan visited the cemetery, Graham's San Francisco office was firebombed by [[Neo-Nazi]]s.<ref name=":2" /> Graham was in France at the time, meeting with [[Bob Geldof]] to organize the first [[Live Aid]] concert. Graham eventually led an effort to build a large [[Menorah (Hanukkah)|menorah]] which is lit during every [[Hanukkah]] in downtown San Francisco.