Mike Wallace | |
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 Wallace in 1997 | |
| Born | Myron Leon Wallace May 9, 1918 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | April 7, 2012 (aged 93) New Canaan, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | University of Michigan (BA) |
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| Years active | 1939–2008 |
| Notable credit | 60 Minutes (1968–2008) |
| Spouses | Norma Kaphan
(m. 1940; div. 1948)Lorraine Périgord
(m. 1955; div. 1986)Mary Yates (m. 1986) |
| Children | 2, including Chris |
Myron Leon Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. Known for his investigative journalism,[1] he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade career. He was one of the original correspondents featured on CBS news program 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008. He is the father of Chris Wallace.
Wallace interviewed many politicians, celebrities, and academics, such as Tina Turner, Joseph Bonanno, Vladimir Horowitz, Bobby Fischer, Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, Pearl S. Buck, Deng Xiaoping, Ronald Reagan, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Jiang Zemin, Ruhollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Frank Lloyd Wright, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Louis Farrakhan, Manuel Noriega, John Nash, Gordon B. Hinckley, Vladimir Putin, Barbra Streisand, Salvador Dalí, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, William Carlos Williams, Mickey Cohen, Roy Cohn, Dean Reed, Jimmy Fratianno, Morgan Freeman, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, and Ayn Rand.[2][3][4]
- ^ "Mike Wallace, the face of investigative reporting in America". CNN. 9 April 2012.
- ^ TruthTube1111 (25 May 2011). "Ayn Rand First Interview 1959 (Full)". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 – via YouTube.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Someoddstuff (September 28, 2011). "Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace: 1958 (Full)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
- ^ CBS News (2012-04-15), Saying farewell to the extraordinary Mike Wallace, retrieved 2022-05-05