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Mike Wallace, ‘60 Minutes’ star interviewer, dies

By Frazier Moore

 |  Associated Press  

  April 08, 2012

CBS newsman Mike 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.

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