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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

How Mike Wallace changed broadcast journalism

Mike Wallace started "60 Minutes" in 1968 with Don Hewitt. He brought drama to news coverage with his probing and aggressive questioning.

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By Madeleine Brand • Jul 25, 2019 • 1 min read

Mike Wallace started "60 Minutes" in 1968 with Don Hewitt. He brought drama to news coverage with his probing and aggressive questioning. Throughout his 70-year career, he interviewed Donald Trump, Salvador Dali, Martin Luther King, Ayatollah Khomeini, Vladimir Putin, Oprah, and on and on. Wallace is the subject of a new documentary called “Mike Wallace is Here.”

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