Mike Wallace served in the U.S. Navy as a communications officer from 1943 to 1946. Following the war, he worked as a news reporter for a radio station in Chicago, but moved to New York in 1951. Known as a probing interviewer and reporter, Wallace has achieved great renown with television programs such as Nightbeat, Mike Wallace Interviews, and (since 1968) 60 Minutes.
Thomas Doherty chairs the Film Studies Program at Brandeis University, and is the author of Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II (1999), and Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (2003).
Mike Wallace was confrontational as always at the World War II discussion.
He started by saying a little about his life in World War II and then says WW2 was a "just" war -- one that people could justify and align with. He said that he didn't think the war in Iraq was a just war. It was being fought for the wrong reasons by people without clear goals.
I'm sitting there in the front row, getting a bunch of this on video between taking my stills and clapping. After awhile, people in the audience started shouting at him. It's a room of veterans and, despite all of the evidence, they have to believe the war is just if people (well, Americans) are dying. (I presume most religions consider it murder unless it is just.) Mike acknowledged he was off-topic but kept coming back to it.
Afterward, I was getting my autograph and he said, "You were in the front row, weren't you?" I said "Yes, I was the annoying person who kept ...More...
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- 2004_DC_WW2_Eagles_040528: WW2 -- Creating, Crafting, and Installing the Memorial’s Bronze Eagles: Raymond Kaskey (Sculptor, Kaskey Studio), Larry Welker, Owner (Laran Bronze), Patrick Oakes (Executive Vice-President, Apex Piping Systems, Inc.). Moderated by John Vlach. (9 photos from 2004)
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- 2004_DC_WW2_Blacks_040528: WW2 -- Experience of African Americans in World War II: Ossie Davis (Army) and William J. Powell (Army). Moderated by Linda Wertheimer. (6 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_DDay_040527: WW2 -- Eyewitness to D-Day: Sam Gibbons. Moderated by Gary Rhay. Introduced by Beverly Lindsey. (6 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_Internment_040530: WW2 -- Internment of Japanese Americans in Wyoming: Norman Mineta (Secretary of Transportation) and Alan Simpson (former U.S. Senator from Wyoming). Moderated by Marc Pachter (12 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_Nissei_040527: WW2 -- Japanese Americans in World War II: Grant Ichikawa (Military Intelligence Service), Norman Ikari (442nd Regimental Combat Team), and Jean Kariya (Internment Camp Survivor). Moderated by Franklin Odo. (6 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_Navajo_040528: WW2 -- Navajo Code Talkers: Sam Billison, Keith Little, and Sam Smith. Moderated by Jeff Anthony (11 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_Tuskegee_040527: WW2 -- Tuskegee Airmen: Lee Archer, Thomas Lowery, and Charles McGee. Moderated by Thomas Doherty. (9 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_Holocaust_040530: WW2 -- U.S. Army and the Holocaust John Dolibois (interrogator of Nazi War Criminals at Nuremberg) and John Withers (aided Holocaust survivors in Germany). Moderated by Jeff Anthony. (11 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_Mall: WW2 -- Various pictures of the Mall during the Tribute to A Generation: Natl World War II Reunion (83 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_Pres_040527: WW2 -- Veterans as Presidential Candidates: Bob Dole (Army, 10th Mountain Division) and George McGovern (Army Air Forces). Moderated by Marc Pachter (12 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_Baseball_040530: WW2 -- World War II Veterans as Baseball Players: Bob Feller (Navy and Cleveland Indians), Monte Irvin (Army and New York Giants), and Buck O’Neil (Navy and Kansas City Monarchs). Moderated by Liane Hansen. (8 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_Film_040530: WW2 -- World War II Veterans as Film Performers: Jack Palance (Army Air Forces). Moderated by Thomas Doherty (8 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_Journalists_040528: WW2 -- World War II Veterans as Journalists: Allen Neuharth (Army, USA Today) and Mike Wallace (Navy, CBS News), Moderated by Thomas Doherty (29 photos from 2004)
- 2004_DC_WW2_Review_040529: WW2 -- "Tribute to a Generation" (@ MCI Center) (39 photos from 2004)
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