Russell Williams
Well-Known Member
By msnbc.com staff and news services
Veteran CBS journalist Mike Wallace died Saturday evening at the age of 93, CBS announced Sunday morning.
Wallace was on the founding staff of "60 Minutes" and quickly became known for his tough interviews.
"It was 65 years from Mike's first appearance on camera -- a World War II film for the Navy -- to his last television appearance, a '60 Minutes' interview with Roger Clemens, the baseball star trying to fight off accusations of steroid use," colleague Morley Safer wrote in a tribute on CBSNews.com.
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Wallace contributed periodically to "60 Minutes" until 2008 after retiring as a regular correspondent in 2006.
I remember his visit to a NAAFA convention in about 1998 or so. I thought he conducted the interview in a fair and non-sensationalistic manner. Especially when a fat woman asked Mike Wallace if he would hire her and he fumbled the question. About two weeks later he revisited that section of tape, said that someone had a better answer, and then read a letter from an employer who said he would have been happy to hire that woman.
Veteran CBS journalist Mike Wallace died Saturday evening at the age of 93, CBS announced Sunday morning.
Wallace was on the founding staff of "60 Minutes" and quickly became known for his tough interviews.
"It was 65 years from Mike's first appearance on camera -- a World War II film for the Navy -- to his last television appearance, a '60 Minutes' interview with Roger Clemens, the baseball star trying to fight off accusations of steroid use," colleague Morley Safer wrote in a tribute on CBSNews.com.
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Wallace contributed periodically to "60 Minutes" until 2008 after retiring as a regular correspondent in 2006.
I remember his visit to a NAAFA convention in about 1998 or so. I thought he conducted the interview in a fair and non-sensationalistic manner. Especially when a fat woman asked Mike Wallace if he would hire her and he fumbled the question. About two weeks later he revisited that section of tape, said that someone had a better answer, and then read a letter from an employer who said he would have been happy to hire that woman.
