Mike Wallace, ‘60 Minutes’ star interviewer, dies

CBS newsman Mike Wallace, who helped make ‘‘60 Minutes’’ the most successful primetime television news program ever, has died at 93.

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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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.

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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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.

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

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

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, 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.

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

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

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