Mike Wallace’s own son Peter fell off a cliff and was tragically killed at the age of 19. According to another interview in which he described the events, Mr Wallace walked where Peter had gone off to, and personally discovered his son’s dead body at the base of the cliff. He then took part in recovering the dead body, and returning it home.
Interview
MIKE WALLACE: It was of course very, very painful. It also changed my life because it changed my career life. Before Peter’s death, I was doing a variety of things in broadcasting. Not just news, because in those days you could do news, a quiz show and even commercials, and I did all of them. I used to say to myself, “Hey, you can’t afford not to do some of these things in order to support your children.” I had two of my own children then and two step-kids. When Peter was killed, I made up my mind… I was going to quit everything. I had enough money for a year. And it helped me cope by channeling some of this into my career choice: saying to myself “better do just what I want to do” and that meant getting a job exclusively in news.
In other words, Peter’s death led him to realize, he should be saying, “Screw my family – I have dreams.” He then left his wife and remaining children, and headed for New York, to pursue his dreams of being a newsman un fettered.
https:// www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/touching-the-raw-amygdala-part-iii-mike-wallaces-amygdala-on-overload/
Chris was one of the REMAINING Children, that Daddy W left, to Find Himself.