"" Mike Wallace ""
"Mike was what used to be called โa frat boy,โ a member of the Alpha Gamma Chapter of the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity."
"Iโd say the turn came from pop culture lite for Mike when Louis Lomax told Wallace about the Nation of Islam. Lomax and Wallace produced a five-part documentary about the organization, The Hate That Hate Produced, which aired during the week of July 13, 1959. The program was the first time most white people heard about the Nation, its leader, Elijah Muhammad, and its charismatic spokesman, Malcolm X.
You know the rest of the story re Wallace, who also got sued by General William Westmoreland for libel (suit dropped after CBS clarified its reportorial intent) โฆ but during the law suit proceedings, Mike was hospitalized with what was said to be โexhaustion.โ But his wife, Mary, forced him to a doctor, who diagnosed Wallace with clinical depression. Mike began taking an antidepressant and underwent psychotherapy.
Out of a belief of that time in our culture, that if others knew he was taking an antidepressant, it would be perceived as a weakness, Wallace kept his depression a secret. Later, he revealed it in an interview with Bob Costas on his late-night talk show that heโd been depressed. And, in a later interview with colleague Morley Safer, he revealed he "" attempted suicide circa 1986."" "
He "" did not have any siblings "" but had two sons. One died in an "accident" in Greece in 1962.
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