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Mike Wallace, on the Comeback

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Veteran CBS 60 Minutes newsman Mike Wallace is on the mend after a recent fall in his New York home that scared doctors still watching his recovery from triple bypass surgery in January. "He's doing really well," says his son Chris Wallace, the Fox News Sunday host who checked in on him while at Fox's New York headquarters to cover the final presidential primaries last week. Doctors hospitalized him, explains his son, because he's on a blood thinner and they wanted to make sure "that he didn't bleed out." Chris says that his dad's heart "is working just fine" but that Mike is over with TV at 90. "His plans are to be healthy enough to go up to Martha's Vineyard for the summer. And since I spend two weeks with him every year, I said to him, in terms of his rehab, 'Don't screw it up, because you're going to wreck my vacation.' "

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Mike Wallace will always be, in my mind, one of the great network television journalists. I worked with him as a cameraman for a number of years at 60 Minutes, and was somewhat intimidated in the early years of the broadcast, because he had such a large reputation, of being tough and unflinching in his work, demanding perfection from all those he worked with.
As the years passed however, I came to see the many facets of this brilliant and kind man, whose presence at CBS News, and in my life, both professional and private, became a cornerstone of what represents the best in television news.
There are many stories I can recount, and hope to write about before I go, because I was fortunate to have a ring-side seat during an era of American culture and journalism that will not come again. Mike was very much a player on that stage.
Willis "Skip" Brown

Willis Brown of CA 1:08AM June 04, 2011

I have watched "60"min. since it started in 1968 ( I was 17 then). Mike and "60min.) could not have came at a more difficult time.The vetnam war,Student up raising,raical tension etc.We (the working people) needed some like mike to ask the hard hitting questions we wanted to be ask.Like: why the school does not have a Black student union on campus? What is the war all about and who is really winning? Are some of the members of the "KKK" in congress as some say? Mike would ask all and investigate all. Back in the day we all watched to see what company would put Mad Mike and 60min. out of their building.I loved the hidden cameras (I think 60 min. was the first to use this to go public with).I remember one they did on a car repair place where the camera caught the mechanic of the shop squirt some oil under a car in the shop. when the owner of the car came to get the car the mechanic told them that there was an oil leak that needed major repair,the owner of the car drove the car out of the shop. When 60min.came back with the owner they ask to speak with the owner are supervisor of the shop. The owner came out,Mike showed him the tape from the hidden camera. The owner went to his office and came back with a tire iron and chased the 60min. crew off his property.
60min. will never be 60min. with out Mike Wallace!Never.That's for the great years!!
Retired Correctional officer/photojournalist

Preston Kerns of MO 7:55PM September 28, 2008

Chris Wallace tells his father not to ruin his vacation. Sounds about right.
It was during the Reagan Administration that we waited in the Rose Garden for Ronald Reagan to come out to speak at a Take Pride in America ceremony. I heard a commotion off to my right...and there was Chris Wallace loudly berating a local TV cameraman for setting up where the younger Mr. Wallace thought his cameraman should be. His language was nasty...and I cannot look at him to this day and not remember his self-important attitude.

Steve Brooks of TN 2:17PM June 15, 2008

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