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Mike Wallace
Myron Leon Wallace was an American broadcast journalist, and television personality. Known for his investigative journalism, he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade career. He was one of the original correspondents featured on CBS news magazine program 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appe…
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culture · American journalist (1918–2012) · journalist · film producer · television presenter · screenwriter · actor · writer · game show host · announcer · also Mike Wallace, Myron Leon Wallace, Myron Wallace, Myron L. Wallace, Wallace
Born 9 May 1918 · Died 7 April 2012 · Q325487
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2026· 1 entry
2020· 2 entries
Yahoo! Sports: Mike Wallace suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for social media post
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Greg Dehm played Wallace in episode 6 of the second season of Manhunt, re-creating Wallace's 1996 interview on 60 Minutes with Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovered a bomb at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park
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2018· 1 entry
Claims of sexual misconduct at 60 Minutes led to the resignation of executive producer Jeff Fager, who had assumed the role of Executive Producer following the retirement of the show's creator, Don Hewitt
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2012· 3 entries
A full episode of 60 Minutes aired that was dedicated to remembering Wallace's life
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The Wall Street Journal: Journalist Mike Wallace Dies at 93
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Died 2012-04-07.
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2011· 1 entry
CNN host Larry King visited him and reported that he was in good spirits, but that his physical condition was noticeably declining
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2008· 1 entry
Wallace received a pacemaker more than 20 years before his death, and underwent triple bypass surgery in January 2008.
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2006· 3 entries
Wallace announced his retirement from 60 Minutes after 37 years with the program
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But still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008
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As "having the energy of a man half his age") began to fail, and in June 2008 his son Chris said that his father would not be returning to television
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1989· 1 entry
Wallace was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania
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1984· 1 entry
After General William Westmoreland filed a $120 million libel lawsuit against Wallace and CBS over statements that were made in the documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception (1982)
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1981· 1 entry
Wallace was forced to apologize for a racial slur he had made about Blacks and Hispanics
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1967· 1 entry
While on assignment for NBC News during the Six-Day War
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1964· 1 entry
Interviewed Malcolm X, who, half-jokingly, commented "I probably am a dead man already
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1962· 1 entry
Wallace decided to get back into news and hosted an early version of CBS Morning News from 1963 to 1966
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1959· 1 entry
Louis Lomax told Wallace about the Nation of Islam
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1949· 1 entry
Wallace began to move to the new medium of television
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1946· 1 entry
Wallace returned to Chicago
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1943· 1 entry
And during World War II served as a communications officer on the USS Anthedon, a submarine tender
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1939· 1 entry
When he was in his last year at the University of Michigan
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1918· 2 entries
Born 1918-05-09.
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In Brookline, Massachusetts, as one of four children to Russian Jewish parents Zina (also Sina; née Sharfman) and Friedan "Frank" Wallik, who had left their home shtetl around 1900
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