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| 60 Minutes interviewer Mike Wallace dies | |
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| Veteran journalist Mike Wallace, famed for his tough interviews on US news programme 60 Minutes over four decades, has died aged 93. | Veteran journalist Mike Wallace, famed for his tough interviews on US news programme 60 Minutes over four decades, has died aged 93. |
| A spokesperson for CBS said he died on Saturday and had been in declining health in recent years. | A spokesperson for CBS said he died on Saturday and had been in declining health in recent years. |
| Wallace was one of the original hosts of 60 Minutes when it began in 1968. | Wallace was one of the original hosts of 60 Minutes when it began in 1968. |
| He went on to interview the likes of Martin Luther King, John F Kennedy, Malcolm X and Yasser Arafat before announcing his retirement in 2006. | He went on to interview the likes of Martin Luther King, John F Kennedy, Malcolm X and Yasser Arafat before announcing his retirement in 2006. |
| However he still continued to do the occaisional report for the show, including interviewing Jack Kevorkian - the US doctor who claimed to have assisted more than 100 suicides - in 2007. | |
| "He was one of the great pioneers in journalism," anchor Bob Schieffer said during CBS's morning news programme. "We are all going to miss him." | |
| In almost 40 years on 60 Minutes, Wallace worked on some 800 investigative reports. | |
| Tribute | |
| Known for spending hours preparing for interviews, he was famed for his sceptical follow-up questioning. | |
| He interviewed every US president since John F Kennedy - except George W Bush - and dozens of other world leaders such as Vladimir Putin, Ayatollah Khomeini and Deng Xiaoping. | |
| A host of celebrities were also subjects including Janis Joplin, Hugh Hefner, Tina Turner, Salvador Dali and Barbra Streisand. | |
| CBS's Morley Safer paid tribute to the newsman, saying: "Wallace took to heart the old reporter's pledge to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." | |
| Wallace is survived by his wife, Mary, son Chris and stepdaughter and stepson, Pauline and Eames. |