AP Photos: A half century of Mike Wallace's career
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?By The Associated PressFILE - This May 8, 2006 file photo shows Mike Wallace, longtime CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent, during an interview at his office in New York. Wallace, famed for his tough interviews on "60 Minutes," has died, Saturday, April 7, 2012. He was 93. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
FILE - This May 8, 2006 file photo shows Mike Wallace, longtime CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent, during an interview at his office in New York. Wallace, famed for his tough interviews on "60 Minutes," has died, Saturday, April 7, 2012. He was 93. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
This May 12, 2007 photo released by CN8 cable network, CBS' 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace, left, greets colleague Andy Rooney during a reception at the 30th annual Boston/New England Emmy Awards in Boston. Wallace, famed for his tough interviews on "60 Minutes," has died, Saturday, April 7, 2012. He was 93. (AP Photo/CN8, Michael Dwyer) NO SALES
FILE - In this Feb. 2, 1980 file photo, co-editor Mike Wallace, left, interviews composer Leonard Bernstein during taping of a part of CBS-TV's "60 Minutes," in New York, in a program set to air four days before a revival of the composer's "West Side Story" that opens on Broadway. Wallace, the dogged, merciless reporter and interviewer who took on politicians, celebrities and other public figures in a 60-year career highlighted by the on-air confrontations that helped make "60 Minutes" the most successful primetime television news program ever, has died. He was 93. (AP Photo, File) NO SALES
FILE - This April 7, 2003 file photo shows journalist Mike Wallace in South Burlington, Vt., Wallace, famed for his tough interviews on "60 Minutes," has died, Saturday, April 7, 2012. He was 93. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 15, 1984 file photo, CBS-TV Correspondent Mike Wallace, right, and producer George Crile, left, leave U.S. District Court in New York, after attending the trial of a libel suit brought by former Gen. William C. Westmoreland against CBS -TV. Wallace, the dogged, merciless reporter and interviewer who took on politicians, celebrities and other public figures in a 60-year career highlighted by the on-air confrontations that helped make "60 Minutes" the most successful primetime television news program ever, has died. He was 93. (AP Photo/Mario Suriani, File)
His prosecutorial style was admired, imitated, condemned and lampooned. His weapons were many: thorough research, a cocked eyebrow, a skeptical "Come on" and a question so direct sometimes it took your breath away.
He was Mike Wallace, the former "60 Minutes" correspondent who died Sunday at 93.
His reputation preceded him: "The four most dreaded words in the English language: Mike Wallace is here," as the saying goes.
"He loved being Mike Wallace," said Jeff Fager, CBS News chairman and Wallace's long-time producer. "He loved the fact that if he showed up for an interview, it made people nervous. ... He knew, and he knew that everybody else knew, that he was going to get to the truth. And that's what motivated him."
Here's a gallery of Mike Wallace photos spanning a half century.
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