Mike Wallace is an American news legend.  He is a correspondent emeritus for CBS News’ 60 Minutes, for which he worked starting with its premiere in 1968. Mike's no-holds-barred interviewing is known around the world, and his numerous and timely interviews read like a who's who of newsmakers. He’s interviewed nearly every American president of the past 60 years, as well as hundreds of top newsmakers.  His fearsome reputation has led one person to  joke that the seven most frightening words in the English language are “Mike Wallace is here to see you.”

Mike's experience as a newsman dates back to the late 1930s, when he was a radio news writer and broadcaster, first in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and later in Detroit and Chicago.  Mike served as a naval communications officer during World War II.  He first joined CBS in 1951, left the network in 1955 and returned in 1963, when he worked as a correspondent and anchor.  His numerous television credits include his breakout show Night Beat, The Mike Wallace Interview, the Peabody Award-winning public-affairs series Biography, and the CBS Morning News.  

But it is for 60 Minutes that Mike is best known.  Mike’s aggressive investigations held government officials, criminals and business leaders accountable for their actions.  He used cutting edge techniques like hidden cameras and one-way mirrors in elaborate sting operations to expose wrongdoing like no one ever had.  And he gained a reputation as America’s toughest interviewer.

Mike has won nearly every award a journalist can earn, including twenty-one Emmy awards, three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, a Robert E. Sherwood Award, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

Wallace was born 92 years ago in Brookline, Mass.  He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1939.  He has a son, Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, and a daughter, Pauline.  He lives in New York with his wife, Mary Yates Wallace.