Mike Wallace

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Mike Wallace during a book reading (2007)

Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace (born May 9, 1918 in Brookline , Massachusetts , † April 7, 2012 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American journalist , news anchor and correspondent .

Wallace was a correspondent for the show 60 Minutes radio station CBS was included in the program for this 1968th During his tenure, he interviewed a large number of high-ranking personalities, including Deng Xiaoping , Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , Ayatollah Khomeini , Kurt Waldheim , Yassir Arafat , Menachem Begin , Anwar Sadat , Manuel Noriega , Nobel Prize Winner John Nash , Vladimir Putin , Maria Callas , Salvador Dalí and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Wallace retired as a correspondent in 2006 and only had guest appearances on 60 Minutes .

Life

Mike Wallace, whose original family name was "Woleck", was born in the Boston suburb of Brookline to Russian - Jewish parents. In 1935 he graduated from Brookline High School . He then attended the University of Michigan , where he graduated in 1939 with a Bachelor of Arts . Wallace worked for Michigan Daily while he was a student . His first job as a broadcaster was for WOOD Radio in Grand Rapids . He stayed there until 1940, when he switched to radio station WXYZ in Detroit as an announcer . After a short time as a freelance radio employee in Chicago , he joined the US Navy , where he participated as a communications officer in World War II . After the war Wallace went back to Chicago.

In the late 1940s, Wallace was employed as an announcer at the CBS radio station . There he occasionally had the opportunity to play his comic talent alongside Spike Jones . In the 1950s he hosted a game show and made his living doing advertising, which was not unusual for the time. This was his main income in the early 1960s, including advertising Wallace for cigarettes.

Due to the death of his eldest son, Wallace switched back to the news. Between 1963 and 1966 he hosted The CBS Morning News .

60 minutes

Wallace was offered the job of host of the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes by producer Don Hewitt , the first program of which aired on September 24, 1968. The plan was to switch to other CBS news programs every two weeks on Tuesday evening. The journalist Harry Reasoner was co-moderator .

On March 14, 2006, Wallace announced his retirement after 37 years as the presenter of 60 Minutes . However, he intends to continue to work for CBS as "Correspondent Emeritus ".

Private life

Wallace was married four times and had two sons and a daughter. The eldest son Peter died in a mountaineering accident in 1962 . His other son, Chris Wallace , is a Fox News Sunday host on Fox News .

depressions

Wallace suffered intermittently from depression caused by allegations of defamation and defamation and the related litigation. He had to be treated by a psychiatrist and on antidepressants . Wallace said of his depression:

“At first I couldn't sleep, then I couldn't eat. I felt hopeless and I just couldn't cope ... and then I just lost all perspective on things. You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for 60 minutes on depression but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed. "

“At first I couldn't sleep, then I couldn't eat. I felt hopeless and I couldn't cope anymore ... and then I just completely lost track of things. You know you're going crazy I had done a report on depression for 60 minutes , but didn't realize I was going through one now. In the end I had a breakdown and just went to bed. "

- Interview as part of the CBS Cares series

During the 60-Minutes telecast on May 21, 2006 gave Wallace announced that he once tried to come up with an overdose of sleeping pills that to take life . In his final years, Wallace went out into the open to provide information about the longstanding battle against his depression. He also testified during a hearing on the subject before the US Senate and gave an interview on Larry King Live .

arrest

In 2004, Wallace hit the headlines after an argument with employees of the New York Taxi Inspectorate. Wallace found the people interviewing a taxi driver who allegedly parked in the second row. Wallace is said to have hit one of the people, whereupon he was arrested. He was released after a hearing for improper conduct.

criticism

In 1959, his report The Hate That Hate Produced was broadcast on the Nation of Islam . The report is accused by critics of having drawn a distorted image. Wallace interviewed US General William Westmoreland for the CBS show The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception . Westmoreland sued Wallace and CBS for defamation . In February 1985, while the case was still being heard, CBS offered an apology and an out-of-court settlement, as internal investigations revealed that the show violated its own rules of fairness. Westmoreland accepted the deal.

Manuel Noriega , the former ruler of Panama , described Wallace as "the epitome of sabotage journalism".

fiction

Awards (selection)

Wallace was recognized for his journalistic work:

Web links

Commons : Mike Wallace  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ABC News: Mike Wallace Dies: '60 Minutes' Correspondent Was 93. In: go.com. April 8, 2012, accessed January 1, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Nadine Brozan: CHRONICLE. In: nytimes.com. March 16, 1993, accessed January 1, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Mike Wallace Retiring From 60 Minutes Mike Wallace To Retire ( Memento from March 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ John Baldoni: Mike Wallace: Fighting the good fight (English) . In: Money Watch , CBS Interactive, April 10, 2012. Retrieved September 4, 2017. 
  5. ↑ Oxford International Review Volume XVIII: What Is America's Role (Second Ed.)> Interview with Mike Wallace ( Memento of October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Herbert Shapiro: White Violence and Black Response. Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1988, ISBN 9780870235788 , p. 468. Limited preview in Google Book Search
  7. ↑ THE UNCOUNTED ENEMY: A VIETNAM DECEPTION ( Memento from June 20, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Roosevelt Institute, List of Prize Winners ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 14, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rooseveltinstitute.org
personal data
SURNAME Wallace, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallace, Myron Leon (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, newscaster and correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Brookline , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2012
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut