Mike Wallace: Veteran journalist and ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent dies at 93

As the biggest star of the longest-running, highest-rated, most influential news show since its 1968 debut, Mike Wallace helped define television journalism with an adversarial interviewing style that was as admired as it was feared.

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1975

Portrait of television journalist Mike Wallace looking over paperwork and holding a pair of eyeglasses. Wallace, famed for his tough interviews on "60 Minutes," died Saturday, April 7, 2012. He was 93.

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April 14, 1958

Journalist Mike Wallace, left, interviews four people involved in integration incidents in Philadelphia. From left: Mike Wallace, Barbara Marx, Mrs. and Mr. William Myers, and Thelma Keitlen and her seeing eye dog.

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Feb. 12, 1957

Actor Errol Flynn, left, and television host Mike Wallace are shown before NBC's "The Big Surprise" TV show. The quiz show was hosted by Wallace.

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Sept. 13, 1962

Mike Wallace stands before his son Peter's grave as the casket is lowered at Kamari Village, Peloponnesus, Greece. Peter Wallace fell to his death in a accident while climbing a steep mountain in Greece. Behind Wallace is his stepson Andrew. Next to him is his son Chris, 14, with his mother, Norma Leonard, and Lorraine Wallace.

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1968

"60 Minutes" correspondents Harry Reasoner, left, and Mike Wallace, right, with creator and producer Don Hewitt on the set in 1968.

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Aug. 28, 1968

Mike Wallace of CBS is hustled off the Democratic National Convention floor in the aftermath of a row between delegates and security officers during a nominating session in Chicago.

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Feb. 2, 1980

Mike Wallace, left, interviews composer Leonard Bernstein during taping of a part of "60 Minutes."

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1985

CBS correspondent Mike Wallace leaves federal court in New York. Wallace was a defendant in a $120 million libel suit against CBS, eventually dropped by the plaintiff, Gen. William Westmoreland. Wallace believes the lawsuit triggered the depression he discusses in the HBO documentary "Dead Blue: Surviving Depression."

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1993

Members of CBS's "60 Minutes" news program gather at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the popular show. From left are: Mike Wallace, Andy Rooney, Morley Safer, Steve Kroft, Ed Bradley, Leslie Stahl and executive producer Don Hewitt.

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Dec. 8, 1995

President Bill Clinton takes a break while being interviewed by the cast of the CBS television show ”60 Minutes” at the White House. Standing from left are Ed Bradley, Morley Safer and Steve Kroft. Seated are Leslie Stahl and Mike Wallace.

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May 8, 2006

Mike Wallace, longtime CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent, listens during an interview at his office in New York.

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1998

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, right, and CBS's Mike Wallace walk through the lobby of a hotel in Livonia, Mich., where Kevorkian was interviewed in 1998 for "60 Minutes." In the interview, Kevorkian administered a lethal injection to a patient suffering from a terminal disease.

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1999

Journalists Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace at the Museum of Television & Radio's annual gala in New York in 1999.

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1999

President Bill Clinton's mental health adviser, Tipper Gore, the wife of Vice President Al Gore, holds the hand of "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace as he tells of his suffering from clinical depression at the White House Conference on Mental Health at Howard University in Washington.

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2005

"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace, left, pointing at his father, Mike Wallace, a CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent, during taping of the television show in New York. Their talk represents the first time father and son had crossed paths professionally in careers that together stretches three-quarters of a century.

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2007

Morley Safer, left, and Mike Wallace arrive at the Museum of Television & Radio's annual gala in New York.

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May 12, 2007

CBS "60 Minutes" legend Mike Wallace, left, greets colleague Andy Rooney during a reception at the 30th annual Boston/New England Emmy Awards in Boston.

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1996

Mike Wallace, longtime CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent, during an interview at his New York office.

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