Last updated on:
5/2/2012 |
Author: ProCon.org
Mike Wallace Biography
- Title:
- Late Correspondent Emeritus and Co-founder of CBS' 60 Minutes
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“I believe every human being has the right to choose to end their own unnecessary suffering.”
“Mike Wallace Takes the Heat,” Swarthmore College Bulletin, June 1999
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Correspondent Emeritus, Correspondent, and Co-founder, CBS’ 60 Minutes, 1968-Apr. 9, 2012
- Recipient of 20 Emmy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2003
- Recipient, three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards
- Recipient, three George Foster Peabody Awards
- Anchor, CBS Morning News, 1963-1966
- First joined CBS in 1951, left in 1955, and returned to CBS in 1963
- Former News Reporter, WMAQ Chicago
- Former radio news writer and broadcaster, Chicago Sun
- Education:
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- BA, University of Michigan, 1939
- Other:
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- Died Apr. 9, 2012
- Broadcast a report on Dr. Jack Kevorkian with videotape footage of the doctor injecting lethal drugs into Thomas Youk, a Lou Gehrig’s Disease sufferer
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