RIP Mike Wallace – I don’t know if it’s completely accurate to say that he invented investigative TV journalism, but if he didn’t, he came pretty close.
There are probably hundreds or maybe thousands of clips out there of interviews he conducted (perhaps the most famous – or infamous, depending on your point of view – broadcasts he was responsible for had to do with Gen. Westmoreland and the Vietnam War, Jeffrey Wigand and the Brown and Williamson stuff, and Khomeni and the quote from Sadat rightly calling the Iranian thug a “lunatic”). For no particular reason, though, here is a clip from a 1964 interview with Malcolm X (as I heard this, I was struck a bit by the parallels – as I see them, anyway – between the “Negro community” and the “Occupy” movement).
I may feature other Wallace clips over the coming days, depending on what I can track down. As a country, we’re better for his efforts at “afflicting the comfortable,” as the saying goes (and Malcolm X was referring to former NYC Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, by the way)…
Update: And oh yeah, this was memorable also...
...and more stuff is noted here...
…and Happy Easter to everyone observing the holiday.
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