Legendary ‘60 Minutes’ Newsman Mike Wallace Dead at 93
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Veteran CBS journalist and star “60 Minutes” interviewer Mike Wallace has died, CBS News reported Sunday morning. He was 93.
Bob Schieffer, host of CBS’ “Face the Nation,” said Wallace died Saturday night in New Haven, Conn.
“His family was with him,” Schieffer said.
Wallace was on the staff of “60 Minutes” when it began in 1968, retiring as a regular correspondent in 2006 but continuing to contribute occasional reports.
Wallace was known for spending hours preparing for interviews and for his skeptical follow-up questioning.
His son, Chris Wallace, is a Fox News anchor.
“60 Minutes” correspondent Morley Safer remembered his former colleague’s career in an essay on CBS News:
Wallace took to heart the old reporter’s pledge to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. He characterized himself as “nosy and insistent.”
So insistent, there were very few 20th century icons who didn’t submit to a Mike Wallace interview. He lectured Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, on corruption. He lectured Yassir Arafat on violence.
He asked the Ayatollah Khoumeini if he were crazy.
He traveled with Martin Luther King (whom Wallace called his hero). He grappled with Louis Farrakhan.
And he interviewed Malcolm X shortly before his assassination.
The Associated Press’ obituary is below:
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS newsman Mike Wallace, the dogged, merciless reporter and interviewer who took on politicians, celebrities and other public figures in a 60-year career highlighted by the on-air confrontations that helped make “60 Minutes” the most successful primetime television news program ever, has died. He was 93.
Wallace died Saturday night, CBS spokesman Kevin Tedesco said.
Until he was slowed by heart surgery as he neared his 90th birthday in 2008, Wallace continued making news, doing “60 Minutes” interviews with such subjects as Jack Kevorkian and Roger Clemens. He had promised to still do occasional reports when he announced his retirement as a regular correspondent in March 2006.
Wallace said then that he had long vowed to retire “when my toes turn up” and “they’re just beginning to curl a trifle. … It’s become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren’t quite what they used to be.”
Among his later contributions, after bowing out as a regular, was a May 2007 profile of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, and an interview with Kevorkian, the assisted suicide doctor released from prison in June 2007 who died June 3, 2011, at age 83.
In December 2007, Wallace landed the first interview with Clemens after the star pitcher was implicated in the Mitchell report on performance enhancing drugs in baseball. The interview, in which Clemens maintained his innocence, was broadcast in early January 2008.
Wallace was the first man hired when late CBS news producer Don Hewitt put together the staff of “60 Minutes” at its inception in 1968. The show wasn’t a hit at first, but it worked its way up to the top 10 in the 1977-78 season and remained there, season after season, with Wallace as one of its mainstays. Among other things, it proved there could be big profits in TV journalism.
The top 10 streak was broken in 2001, in part due to the onset of huge-drawing rated reality shows. But “60 Minutes” remained in the top 25 in recent years, ranking 15th in viewers in the 2010-11 season.
The show pioneered the use of “ambush interviews,” with reporter and camera crew corralling alleged wrongdoers in parking lots, hallways, wherever a comment – or at least a stricken expression – might be harvested from someone dodging the reporters’ phone calls.
Such tactics were phased out over time – Wallace said they provided drama but not much good information.
And his style never was all about surprise, anyway. Wallace was a master of the skeptical follow-up question, coaxing his prey with a “forgive me, but …” or a simple, “come on.” He was known as one who did his homework, spending hours preparing for interviews, and alongside the exposes, “60 Minutes” featured insightful talks with celebrities and world leaders.
He was equally tough on public and private behavior. In 1973, with the Watergate scandal growing, he sat with top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman and read a long list of alleged crimes, from money laundering to obstructing justice. “All of this, Wallace noted, “by the law and order administration of Richard Nixon.”
The surly Ehrlichman could only respond: “Is there a question in there somewhere?”
In the early 1990s, Wallace reduced Barbra Streisand to tears as he scolded her for being “totally self-absorbed” when she was young and mocked her decades of psychoanalysis. “What is it she is trying to find out that takes 20 years?” Wallace said he wondered.
“I’m a slow learner,” Streisand told him.
His late colleague Harry Reasoner once said, “There is one thing that Mike can do better than anybody else: With an angelic smile, he can ask a question that would get anyone else smashed in the face.”
Wallace said he didn’t think he had an unfair advantage over his interview subjects: “The person I’m interviewing has not been subpoenaed. He’s in charge of himself, and he lives with his subject matter every day. All I’m armed with is research.”
Wallace himself became a dramatic character in several projects, from the stage version of “Frost/Nixon,” when he was played by Stephen Rowe, to the 1999 film “The Insider,“ based in part on a 1995 ”60 Minutes” story about tobacco industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand, who accused Brown & Williamson of intentionally adding nicotine to cigarettes. Christopher Plummer starred as Wallace and Russell Crowe as Wigand. Wallace was unhappy with the film, in which he was portrayed as caving to pressure to kill a story about Wigand.
Operating on a tip, The New York Times reported that “60 Minutes” planned to excise Wigand’s interview from its tobacco expose. CBS said Wigand had signed a nondisclosure agreement with his former company, and the network feared that by airing what he had to say, “60 Minutes” could be sued along with him.
The day the Times story appeared, Wallace downplayed the gutted story as “a momentary setback.” He soon sharpened his tone. Leading into the revised report when it aired, he made no bones that “we cannot broadcast what critical information about tobacco, addiction and public health (Wigand) might be able to offer.” Then, in a “personal note,“ he told viewers that he and his ”60 Minutes“ colleagues were ”dismayed that the management at CBS had seen fit to give in to perceived threats of legal action.”
The full report eventually was broadcast.
Wallace maintained a hectic pace after CBS waived its long-standing rule requiring broadcasters to retire at 65. In early 1999, at age 80, he added another line to his resume by appearing on the network’s spinoff, “60 Minutes II.” (A similar concession was granted Wallace’s longtime colleague, Don Hewitt, who in 2004, at age 81, relinquished his reins as executive producer; he died in 2009.)
Wallace amassed 21 Emmy awards during his career, as well as five DuPont-Columbia journalism and five Peabody awards.
In all, his television career spanned six decades, much of it spent at CBS. In 1949, he appeared as Myron Wallace in a show called “Majority Rules.” In the early 1950s, he was an announcer and game show host for programs such as “What’s in a Word?” He also found time to act in a 1954 Broadway play, “Reclining Figure,” directed by Abe Burrows.
In the mid-1950s came his smoke-wreathed “Night Beat,” a series of one-on-one interviews with everyone from an elderly Frank Lloyd Wright to a young Henry Kissinger that began on local TV in New York and then appeared on the ABC network. It was the show that first brought Wallace fame as a hard-boiled interviewer, a “Mike Malice” who rarely gave his subjects any slack.
Wrote Coronet magazine in 1957: “Wallace’s interrogation had the intensity of a third degree, often the candor of a psychoanalytic session. Nothing like it had ever been known on TV. … To Wallace, no guest is sacred, and he frankly dotes on controversy.”
Sample “Night Beat” exchange, with colorful restaurateur Toots Shor. Wallace: “Toots, why do people call you a slob?” Shor: “Me? Jiminy crickets, they `musta’ been talking about Jackie Gleason.”
In those days, Wallace said, “interviews by and large were virtual minuets. … Nobody dogged, nobody pushed.“ He said that was why ”Night Beat“ ”got attention that hadn’t been given to interview broadcasts before.”
It was also around then that Wallace did a bit as a TV newsman in the 1957 Hollywood drama “A Face in the Crowd,” which starred Andy Griffith as a small-town Southerner who becomes a political phenomenon through his folksy television appearances. Two years later, Wallace helped create “The Hate That Hate Produced,” a highly charged program about the Nation of Islam that helped make a national celebrity out of Malcolm X and was later criticized as biased and inflammatory.
After holding a variety of other news and entertainment jobs, including serving as advertising pitchman for a cigarette brand, Wallace became a full-time newsman for CBS in 1963.
He said it was the death of his 19-year-old son, Peter, in an accident in 1962 that made him decide to stick to serious journalism from then on. (Another son, Chris, followed his father and became a broadcast journalist, most recently as a Fox News Channel anchor.)
Wallace had a short stint reporting from Vietnam, and took a sock in the jaw while covering the tumultuous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. But he didn’t fit the stereotype of the Eastern liberal journalist. He was a close friend of the Reagans and was once offered the job of Richard Nixon’s press secretary. He called his politics moderate.
One “Night Beat” interview resulted in a libel suit, filed by a police official angry over remarks about him by mobster Mickey Cohen. Wallace said ABC settled the lawsuit for $44,000, and called it the only time money had been paid to a plaintiff in a suit in which he was involved.
The most publicized lawsuit against him was by retired Gen. William C. Westmoreland, who sought $120 million for a 1982 “CBS Reports” documentary, “The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception.” Westmoreland dropped the libel suit in February 1985 after a long trial. Lawyers for each side later said legal costs of the suit totaled $12 million, of which $9 million was paid by CBS.
Wallace once said the case brought on depression that put him in the hospital for more than a week. “Imagine sitting day after day in the courtroom hearing yourself called every vile name imaginable,” he said.
In 1996, he appeared before the Senate’s Special Committee on Aging to urge more federal funds for depression research, saying that he had felt “lower, lower, lower than a snake’s belly” but had recovered through psychiatry and antidepressant drugs. He later disclosed that he once tried to commit suicide during that dark period. Wallace, columnist Art Buchwald and author William Styron were friends who commiserated often enough about depression to call themselves “The Blues Brothers,” according to a 2011 memoir by Styron’s daughter, Alexandra.
Wallace called his 1984 book, written with Gary Paul Gates, “Close Encounters.“ He described it as ”one mostly lucky man’s encounters with growing up professionally.”
In 2005, he brought out his memoir, “Between You and Me.”
Among those interviewing him about the book was son Chris, for “Fox News Sunday.” His son asked: Does he understand why people feel a disaffection from the mainstream media?
“They think they’re wide-eyed commies. Liberals,” the elder Wallace replied, a notion he dismissed as “damned foolishness.”
Wallace was born Myron Wallace on May 9, 1918, in Brookline, Mass. He began his news career in Chicago in the 1940s, first as radio news writer for the Chicago Sun and then as reporter for WMAQ. He started at CBS in 1951.
He was married four times. In 1986, he wed Mary Yates Wallace, the widow of his close friend and colleague, Ted Yates, who had died in 1967. Besides his wife, Wallace is survived by his son, Chris, a stepdaughter, Pauline Dora, and stepson Eames Yates.
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Comments (77)
txblaze
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 2:49pmI may not have agreed with Mike Wallace on most things or liked the way he did his job, but he was a husband, a father, and a grandfather. We may not miss him but his family will. My heart goes out to them.
Report Post »mottdahoop
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 4:15pmIsn’t it ironic……..let’s all mourn the passing of a leftist journalist that thrived under the protection of the First Ammendment while attacking the foundation of America………as his son does under the protection of FOX news. I won’t revel in his passing, but neither will I shed a tear.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 5:11pmWhile, I also may not have always agreed with Mike Wallace, you had to respect him for being a tough interviewer. Sadly, he may have actually been one of the last true journalists in the mainstream media, since what we have now are nothing more than a slobbering pack of synchophant’s, who compose outrageous lies, in the name of promoting the sick and twisted agenda of the traitors who we now find in charge of our country.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 6:21pmRIP Mike Wallace. Now, does his passing open up a new job for Keith Olberman?? (NOT!)
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 8:41pmHold your opinions… until they open the Communist Party Records… and you can see how he Twisted News, supported Socialists, worked against the Congress on UnAmerican Activities, set the Network on a path to Obama Support, and,,,
Report Post »Thomas
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 9:28pmHe lucky cause he got out before he got to see the poisoned fruit of his labor. Good riddance.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 10:26pmWallace was awesome and one of a kind. Rest in peace Mike Wallace, you did your job.
Here‘s one of Wallace’s signature interviews, him and Ayn Rand. Wallace took the Christian side, Rand, a (not “the”) atheist position. Wallace spoke about Christianity and altruism, she spoke about morality based on the greed of the individual and the rule of the powerful individual. Regardless of your point of view, this is a classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5aSGgpy7WU
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 9, 2012 at 12:03am@JZS
Report Post »Greed is Not a Sin… and is good… in that it causes you to collect the materials for Food & Shelter… but if you collect too much, then morality dictates that you do some sharing… or investing, which will cause more materials to exist, so that the poor hunters can find their materials more easily!!
Thomas
Posted on April 9, 2012 at 7:41amMorality and charity does not dictate anything. Love and compassion can never be out of compulsion and if it could be dictated then God would have never given us freewill (a choice). Only man saw the re-commendations from God as something that had to be forced. Trust me if God wanted to force you to do what He wanted then He most certainly could. Jesus did not come to abolish God‘s request but just man’s oppression using what God asked us to do. Even Moses himself had something he had to learn.
Report Post »LogicalMetaphysician
Posted on April 9, 2012 at 6:30pmSo was Adolf Hitler.
Report Post »I urinate on the grave of this anti-human elitist pig.
Jackie Rogers, Jr.
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 2:48pmRIP MR Wallace. I loved your interviews with Nathan Thurm on SNL back in the ’80s
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 2:12pmIf that man was not prepared to meet God. I bet he got some shock and awe.
Report Post »patbarker
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 2:07pmHope he repented of his sins and knew Jesus as Lord b/4 he died!!!
Report Post »sailselan
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:53pmThe last time I saw Mike Wallace, he was at the table next to my husband and I at the Edgartown Yacht Club while we were having dinner, and he was being very loud and obnoxious and pounding his fists on the table chanting “shock and awe” over and over, making fun of Dubya during that part of the Iraq war. It happened during the time the press had been called out for being biased and they were denying their bias. I wish I had a smartphone with a video at the time. It was the year 2003, I believe. We ended up leaving early and not having dessert because I wanted to go over to Mike Wallace and tell him what I thought of him. I might have but for fear of being black listed on the yacht club scene. He was such a jerk and I saw the true Mike Wallace that evening. No loss in my opinion.
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 2:06pmThoughts and prayers to the entire Wallace family.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 9:22pmI might have but for fear of being black listed on the yacht club scene.? I hope you made this up
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:42pmMy thoughts and prayers to the family of Mike Wallace. I used to like the so called msm news years ago and Mr. Wallace was a special guy. He will greatly missed.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 9, 2012 at 11:24amAgree. Enjoyed his interviews.
Report Post »Deejay_Les
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:22pmCondolences to Chris and the rest of the family. Undeniably an icon, and for a lib, in fact, one of the better ones. Not to be confused with Dan Rather, and I’ve got some appreciation for the man who raised Chris Wallace. RIP Mike Wallace.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:31pmSorry for Chris’ loss.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:36pmDitto
Report Post »USNRET04
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 2:35pmI agree.
Report Post »bcope01
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:13pmFox had a clip of Wallace harassing Mrs. Reagan over Pres. Reagan and Iran Contra. Would Wallace or any of the other leftie-commies ask Michele Obama about Pres. Obama’s connection to Fast and Furious? Think not. Didn’t like the man or his bias. Not a great reporter. No truth.
Report Post »BobHar777
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:06pmGood riddance to bad rubbish. Agenda driven liberal sockpuppet of the first magnitude.
Enjoy hell, you won’t be missed.
Report Post »USNRET04
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 2:37pmIt is so disheartening to see post like yours.
Report Post »mottdahoop
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 4:18pmBob, I agree with you absolutely. Barber2 this is what you on the left say about us all the time. We have had enough and are saying the same thing you freaks say. Now suddenly you are offended?
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 9:48pmHe was a smear merchant and now they proliferate throughout the media, broadcast and written. Not a proud legacy. No doubt we will now have to endure endless programs touting his “greatest moments” …..Turn your TV and radio off for a week……you will be glad you did.
Report Post »Cruelnunusual
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:00pmThese people LIED to us about the Soviet Union all my life. They lied about Camelot, HA! If JFK had been Reagan, they’d call him the man who gave us the Berlin Wall and almost blew up the world. They lie about our elections being stolen….I don’t even know where to begin. Anyone who admires the Lying Liberal Media is STOOPID.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:42pmOne of the greatest propagandists of our time. He has passed the torch to his son that fools millions every Sunday into thinking that Rino’s are good an the Arab spring is a wonderful new democracy.
Report Post »Rest in Peace Mr Wallace. May God bless you and your family.
sedition
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:57pmCrime and enforcement stats in NYC. 2011
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/yearend2011enforcementreport.pdf
Report Post »Bronx
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:29pmMay you R.I.P. As a newman you always want to report the truth over just a story, did he do that, hmm you be the judge. But he now knows the truth about life after death.
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:25pmOnce a respected journalist who unfortunately jumped on the LEFT’S BAND WAGON in his golden years. My condolences to the family for their loss–but beyond that there is one less spewing the LEFT’S poison!
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:23pmGood bye, Good riddance to bad rubbish…Another lying lefty Commie bites the dust.
Report Post »aggiebydefault
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:54pmAnd we will be sure to herald your death with such class and ignorance as well.
Report Post »USNRET04
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 2:40pmIt is troublesome to see posts like this. Extremely cruel.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:23pmPrayers all around to his family and friends. his legacy will live in his son who is doing a great job at fox and the rest of his family. what a good long life. Rest in Peace
Report Post »doglady
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:17pmRest in Peach Mr. Wallace. They don’t make them like you anymore.
Report Post »John Moser
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:20pmIf only that were true.
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:09pmMike Wallace….Now THAT was a journalist…RIP Mike…and prayers to the family…
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:06pmHe became a legend in his own time. RIP
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:10pmI, personally, couldn’t care less. His death means even less to me than mine would have to him. Worms, eat up.
Report Post »John Moser
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:21pmI think you mean in his own mind.
Report Post »John Moser
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:23pmI think you mean “n his own mind”.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:30pmYou mean a legend in his own mind…….
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 11:31amI enjoyed watching him on 60 minutes through the years. May he Rest in Peace.
My prayers go out to Chris and his family.
Report Post »TRONRADIO
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 11:05amNo one better at the job he did. Chris, you can be proud of of your father; he was no doubt, proud of you.
Happy Easter all!
Report Post »John Moser
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 1:25pmActually Chris referred to him as “crazy”. Now, he’s not.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 11:01am93? WOW, he lived a good long life! I never really watched him much…RIP
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 10:51amAs a news person he was well respected up until his fiasco with Bush. I guess we can chalk that up to old age senility. Regardless, my condolences to Chris Wallace of Fox News and his family.
93, if only I could see what that is like.
Rest in Peace.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 11:03amFiasco with Bush? Are you confusing him with Dan Rather? My memory of him being a jackass was back when he attacked the Reagan Administration. But, I did trust him not only far more than Rather on NBC at the time, I also began to trust him far more than Cronkite back before he retired. Thought that he really turned on his country during Vietnam.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 11:11amAllow me to make that last sentence a bit less vague. I thought that Cronkite turned on this country during the early days of Vietnam. Not Wallace. Wallace was a Naval officer during WWII assigned to a sub tender for almost three years. I can certainly respect Wallace, while I certainly did disagree with him regarding Reagan. He did later make close friends with Nancy Reagan. He certainly got some interviews that no other American journalist ever could.
Report Post »obersaber
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 10:51amSad but true.
Report Post »who_is_john_galt_in_RI
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 10:47amsending out prayers for Mike and his family, may you find the peace of your lord and God.
Report Post »Onowicit
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 8:13pm@who_is_john_galt_in_RI
lord and god………..have ya read the words of john galt, (aynn rand)
It’s always “touching” when a cultural icon dies. he was there for my grandparents, my parents and then me. like him or not, you can mark time by his life. at least it teaches me to “number my days”.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 10:46amLooks like all the good ones are leaving us. If only the ones left here could have learned something about integrity from him.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 8, 2012 at 11:44amYes. The media today is filled with so many celebrity wannabes. Sad. The Media is like our fourth branch of government and it is largely dysfunctional today.
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