The country learned on the CBS program Sunday Morning that legendary 60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace had died Saturday night in New Haven, Connecticut at the age of 93. He had been in ill health in recent years.
"Legendary" may be a term over-utilized when describing some folks, but not Wallace, whose career lasted more than 60 years, and included stints as a radio announcer, a radio actor, television actor and game show host — all before he got into hard news in the 1950s.
But his career took off nationally at the age of 50 when he became the lead reporter for 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968 and remains one of the most popular programs on broadcast television some 42 years later.
Wallace retired in 2006 at the age of 87, but he returned two years later for a final interview in January of 2008 with baseball pitcher Roger Clemens, accused the month before in the Mitchell Report of using anabolic steroids.
