MIKE WALLACE DIES AT AGE 93 (60 MINUTES) CORRESPONDENT - BREAKING NEWS

On April 8, 2012 CBS Sunday Morning reported that Mike Wallace had died at the age of 93. [19] According to Face the Nation on April 8, 2012, Bob Schieffer reported that Wallace died in Connecticut, where he resided, on April 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm, surrounded by family

Mike Wallace, a game show host and tobacco pitchman who went on to personify the hard-nosed and often skeptical journalism of CBS's '60 Minutes,' died Sunday after a long illness. He was 93.

Wallace built his reputation through sometimes contentious interviews with major and often controversial public figures like Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Muammar Quaddafi, Richard Nixon, Ayotollah Khomeini, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Gen. Manuel Noriega and Gen. William Westmoreland.

Occasionally he became part of the controversy. In 1985 Westmoreland sued CBS News after Wallace interviewed him for a special that alleged the military falsified body counts during the Vietnam War. The case was settled during the trial when CBS apologized.

Wallace later said that lawsuit sent him into clinical depression. But he did not back away from the blunt verbal sparring that helped establish the no-nonsense reputation of '60 Minutes,' where he and Harry Reasoner were the original coanchors on Sept. 24, 1968..