'60 Minutes' correspondent was known for his hard-hitting interview style.
By Gil Kaufman
Mike Wallace
Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images
Veteran TV reporter and longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace died on Saturday at the age of 93. Over 50 years as a journalist Wallace developed a reputation as a dogged interrogator unafraid to ask his subjects hard, uncomfortable questions, which he often set up with the soft-touch phrase, "forgive me."
Wallace, who was one of the founding hosts of pioneering TV news magazine "60 Minutes," retired in 2006, occasionally returning to the show to do interviews with the likes of Mitt Romney and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He underwent triple bypass heart surgery in 2008 and died after what was described as a long illness in New Haven, Connecticut, on Saturday.
"All of us at CBS News and particularly at '60 Minutes' owe so much to Mike," said Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and...
By Gil Kaufman
Mike Wallace
Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images
Veteran TV reporter and longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace died on Saturday at the age of 93. Over 50 years as a journalist Wallace developed a reputation as a dogged interrogator unafraid to ask his subjects hard, uncomfortable questions, which he often set up with the soft-touch phrase, "forgive me."
Wallace, who was one of the founding hosts of pioneering TV news magazine "60 Minutes," retired in 2006, occasionally returning to the show to do interviews with the likes of Mitt Romney and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He underwent triple bypass heart surgery in 2008 and died after what was described as a long illness in New Haven, Connecticut, on Saturday.
"All of us at CBS News and particularly at '60 Minutes' owe so much to Mike," said Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and...
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