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‘60 Minutes’ Icon Mike Wallace Dead at 93: Photos of His Life

TOUGH BUT FAIR

Photos from Mike Wallace’s career.

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Mike Wallace, the 60 Minutes host famed for interviewing everyone from Ayn Rand to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has died at age 93. See photos from Wallace’s decades-long career.

Clockwise from top left: Lorenzo Bevilaqua / WireImage; Evan Agostini / AP Photo; Getty Images; CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images
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Actor Errol Flynn and Mike Wallace are shown before NBC’s The Big Surprise on Feb. 12, 1957. The quiz show is hosted by Wallace.

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Wallace and British writer Malcolm Muggeridge chat in an ABC television studio in New York City before their appearance on the network’s Mike Wallace Interview show on Oct. 19, 1957.

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A man argues with Mike Wallace and Alex Rosenberg in a fracas on the floor of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 28, 1968. Both men were hauled off the floor, but returned later. The row started when Rosenberg refused to show his identification pass.

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Wallace works for CBS News at the 1972 Democratic National Convention.

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Wallace reports for CBS News in 1967 in Vietnam.

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Wallace and wife Lorraine at the opening of Sophie's Choice in New York on Dec. 5, 1982.

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Wallace leaves federal court at Foley Square in New York City on Oct. 12, 1984.

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Wallace poses with 60 Minutes executive producer Don Hewitt after the show won an award at the People’s Choice Awards on March 12, 1991.

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Barbara Walters and Wallace pose for photographers before a gala for the Museum of Television and Radio in New York on Feb. 4, 1999.

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Assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian walks out of the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater, Mich., and gets a hug from Wallace after his release June 1, 2007. Wallace interviewed Kevorkian for 60 Minutes.

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CNN’s Larry King interviews Don Hewitt, Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley and Morley Safer of the 60 Minutes anchor team in 2004.

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Wallace and his wife Mary attend a special screening of Stardust at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28, 2007.

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Wallace speaks on stage at the New York Emmy Awards Gala on April 1, 2007.

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