Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace (May 9, 1918 â€" April 7, 2012) was an
American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. He
interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his
seven-decade career. He was one of the original correspondents for
CBS' 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular
full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on
the series until 2008.Wallace interviewed many politicians,
celebrities, and academics, such as Donald J.Trump, Pearl S. Buck,
Deng Xiaoping, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Jiang Zemin, Ruhollah Khomeini,
Kurt Waldheim, Frank Lloyd Wright, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin,
Anwar Sadat, Manuel Noriega, John Nash, Gordon B. Hinckley, Vladimir
Putin, Maria Callas, Barbra Streisand, Salvador DalÃ, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, William Carlos Williams, Mickey Cohen, Dean Reed, Jimmy
Fratianno, Aldous Huxley, and Ayn Rand.Wallace, whose family's surname
was originally Wallik, was born on May 9, 1918, in Brookline,
Massachusetts to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. He identified as a
Jew and claimed it was his ethnicity (instead of religion) throughout
his life. His father was a grocer and insurance broker. Wallace
attended Brookline High School, graduating in 1935. He graduated from
the University of Michigan four years later with a Bachelor of Arts.
While a college student, he was a reporter for the Michigan Daily and
belonged to the Alpha Gamma Chapter of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. He
interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his
seven-decade career. He was one of the original correspondents for
CBS' 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular
full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on
the series until 2008.Wallace interviewed many politicians,
celebrities, and academics, such as Donald J.Trump, Pearl S. Buck,
Deng Xiaoping, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Jiang Zemin, Ruhollah Khomeini,
Kurt Waldheim, Frank Lloyd Wright, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin,
Anwar Sadat, Manuel Noriega, John Nash, Gordon B. Hinckley, Vladimir
Putin, Maria Callas, Barbra Streisand, Salvador DalÃ, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, William Carlos Williams, Mickey Cohen, Dean Reed, Jimmy
Fratianno, Aldous Huxley, and Ayn Rand.Wallace, whose family's surname
was originally Wallik, was born on May 9, 1918, in Brookline,
Massachusetts to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. He identified as a
Jew and claimed it was his ethnicity (instead of religion) throughout
his life. His father was a grocer and insurance broker. Wallace
attended Brookline High School, graduating in 1935. He graduated from
the University of Michigan four years later with a Bachelor of Arts.
While a college student, he was a reporter for the Michigan Daily and
belonged to the Alpha Gamma Chapter of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
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