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Mike Wallace, right, is shown with Harry Reasoner, left, and Don Hewitt, creator and producer of “60 Minutes,” on the show’s set in New York in 1968.

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Members of “60 Minutes” gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to mark the show’s 25th anniversary in 1993. Wallace is at left.

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Wallace is seen during an interview in his office in 2006.

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Wallace greeted colleague Andy Rooney at the Boston/New England Emmy Awards in Boston in 2007.

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Wallace interviewed composer Leonard Bernstein in February 1980.

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Wallace and George Crile, a “60 Minutes” producer, departed US District Court in New York on Oct. 15, 1984, during a libel trial brought by former General William C. Westmoreland.

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Wallace, right, is seen in this 1953 photo with Joseph M. Chamberlain, astronomer with the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The program “Adventure” was a joint production of CBS and the museum, and featured a tour of the solar system, including a look at the landscape of the planet Mercury.

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Wallace, right, was host of “The Big Surprise” game show on NBC in 1957 when actor Errol Flynn was a guest.

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Wallace waited in a hallway to see a colleague in New York in 2006.