Before joining CBS and 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace hosted a half-hour interview program on ABC (derived from his New York City/WABD-based program Night-beat, titled The Mike Wallace Interview. The program ran from 1957 to 1960.
In the early 60s, he donated some of the original kinescopes to the University of Texas-Austin and they recently uploaded the original full-length interviews to their website.
They are a fascinating look into the past and news makers in the early years of television.
UT-Austin only has interviews from 1957 and 1958, 65 in total, though one or two do not have video available, only audio, and one has only the typed transcript.
I just finished watching the interview with Eldon Edwards, the "Imperial Grand Wizard of the KKK," and was blown away by Wallace's depth of research for the half-hour, uninterrupted interview (the original, intact commercials for Philip Morris Cigarettes, read live by Mike Wallace, appear at the beginning and end of the interview) which covered the then-recent Supreme Court school segregation ruling, among other topics.
Other newsmakers interviewed are Gloria Swanson, radio journalist Mary Margaret McBride, Texas oil magnate Glenn McCarthy and the pro-segregation Arkansas governor Orval Faubus.
In the early 60s, he donated some of the original kinescopes to the University of Texas-Austin and they recently uploaded the original full-length interviews to their website.
They are a fascinating look into the past and news makers in the early years of television.
UT-Austin only has interviews from 1957 and 1958, 65 in total, though one or two do not have video available, only audio, and one has only the typed transcript.
I just finished watching the interview with Eldon Edwards, the "Imperial Grand Wizard of the KKK," and was blown away by Wallace's depth of research for the half-hour, uninterrupted interview (the original, intact commercials for Philip Morris Cigarettes, read live by Mike Wallace, appear at the beginning and end of the interview) which covered the then-recent Supreme Court school segregation ruling, among other topics.
Other newsmakers interviewed are Gloria Swanson, radio journalist Mary Margaret McBride, Texas oil magnate Glenn McCarthy and the pro-segregation Arkansas governor Orval Faubus.