Mike Wallace Papers

An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University

Overview of the Collection
Creator:	Wallace, Mike, 1918-2012.
Title:	Mike Wallace Papers
Inclusive Dates:	1959-1961
Quantity:	6.0 linear feet
Abstract:	Papers of the news commentator, journalist.
Abstract:	Television interview scripts. People represented include Edward Albee, Cleveland Amory, George Axelrod, William F. Buckley Jr., Marcel Duchamp, Max Eastman, Anne Francis, Gus Hall, Ben Hecht, Henry Kissinger, Shirley MacLaine, Bishop James A. Pike, Ayn Rand, Carl Sandburg, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams.
Language:	English
Repository:	Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu

Biographical History

Mike Wallace (1918-2012) was an American television interviewer, host and commentator.

Born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 9, 1918, he received his A.B. degree from the University of Michigan after attending the University from 1935 to 1939. He started with radio in 1939, and began with television in 1946. He was a television commentator for C.B.S. - T.V. from 1951 to 1954, and in 1963 he became a C.B.S. news staff correspondent. He is president of Newsmaker Productions, Incorporated. Wallace received several awards and recognitions, including an A.T.V.A.S. Emmy Award, the George Foster Peabody Award and the Boston Press Club Headliner Award. He was the executive vice-president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Overseas Press Club and The Players.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Mike Wallace Papers consists of transcripts of interviews with a wide variety of personalities, including authors, entertainers, religious leaders, political figures, and more. Notable interviewees include Edward Albee, Cleveland Amory, George Axelrod, William F. Buckley Jr., Marcel Duchamp, Max Eastman, Anne Francis, Gus Hall, Ben Hecht, Henry Kissinger, Shirley MacLaine, Bishop James A. Pike, Ayn Rand, Carl Sandburg, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams.

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Arrangement of the Collection

Scripts are arranged alphabetically by interviewee.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on this material.

Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

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Related Material

Audio tapes of Mike Wallace interviews (28 boxes, spanning the period of 1958-1962) have been transferred to the Belfer Audio Archive. (1992) The list of tapes has been included with the hard copy finding aid in the reading room at Special Collections Research Center.

The University of Michigan, Wallace's alma mater, holds the majority of Mike Wallace's papers.

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Subject Headings

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Mike Wallace Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library

Finding Aid Information

Created by: -
Date: Aug 1967
Revision history: 17 Sep 2007 - converted to EAD (JPK); 11 Apr 2012 - updated bio (MRC)

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Inventory

	Scripts
Box 1		Aadland, Beverly Nov 10 1959
Box 1		Aherne, Brian Apr 1 1960
Box 1		Albee, Edward Feb 15 1961
Box 1		Albert, Eddie Jan 17 1961
Box 1		Allen, Mel May 12 1959
Box 1		Allen, Steve Oct 10 1960
Box 1		Amory, Cleveland Dec 10 1959, Dec 5 1960, Dec 19 1960
Box 1		Andrews, Dane Apr 6 1959
Box 1		Anka, Paul Nov 22, 1960
Box 1		Ashmore, Harry May 19 1960
Box 1		Atkinson, Ted Mar 4 1959
Box 1		Aumont, Jean Pierre Mar 10 1960
Box 1		Axelrod, George Mar 30 1960, Apr 20 1960
Box 1		Baldwin, James Mar 24 1961
Box 1		Balin, Ina Sep 13 1960
Box 1		Bancroft, Anne Mar 6 1959
Box 1		Baxley, Barbara Nov 21 1960
Box 1		Bean, Orson Mar 18 1959
Box 1		Beatty, Clyde Apr 9 1959
Box 1		Bedford, Duchess of Oct 25 1960
Box 1		Begin, Menachem Nov 28 1960
Box 1		Belfrage, Sally Mar 23 1959
Box 1		Bendix, William Oct 31 1960
Box 1		Bennett, Tony Mar 29 1961
Box 1		Berman, Shelley Apr 20 1959
Box 1		Bikel, Theodore Nov 20 1959
Box 1		Blansherd, Paul Jan 14 1960
Box 1		Block, Martin Mar 12 1959
Box 1		Bloeth, Jane Aug 17 1959
Box 1		Bonomi, John Dec 20 1960
Box 1		Boswell, Connee Dec 19 1960
Box 1		Bowles, Chester Dec 17 1959
Box 1		Boyington, Pappy May 5 1959
Box 1		Bracken, Eddie Sep 16 1959
Box 1		Bradley, William Apr 13 1959
Box 1		Branden, Nathaniel Feb 29 1960
Box 2		Bricktop Mar 3 1961
Box 2		Brooks, Mel Jan 17 1961
Box 2		Bucholz, Earl Feb 9 1961
Box 2		Buckley, William F., Jr. Dec 5 1960, Feb 29 1960
Box 2		Burnett, Carol Mar 17 1960
Box 2		Caldwell, Erskine Nov 6 1959
Box 2		Calloway, Cab Sep 24 1959
Box 2		Calvert, Captain James Nov 1 1960
Box 2		Campanella, Roy Nov 27 1959
Box 2		Carey, James B Oct 29 1959
Box 2		Carnera, Primo Mar 10 1961
Box 2		Carroll, Diahann Feb 10 1961
Box 2		Cassevetes,John Oct 31 1960
Box 2		Cassini, Oleg Jan 6 1961
Box 2		Cater, Douglass Oct 4 1960
Box 2		Cerf, Bennett Nov 19 1959
Box 2		Channing, Carol Mar 3 1961
Box 2		Charell, Lissa Apr 1 1960
Box 2		Chase, Ilke Oct 10 1960
Box 2		Cobb, Lee J. May 10 1960
Box 2		Cohen, Alexander Dec 4 1959
Box 2		Cohen, Benjamin Jun 17 1959
Box 2		Comden, Betty and Green, Adolph Feb 17 1961
Box 2		Coniff, Frank Jan 6 1961
Box 2		Conreid, Hans Feb 24 1959
Box 2		Cousy, Bob Sep 16 1959
Box 2		Cowles, Fleur Oct 15 1959
Box 2		Cox, Wally Oct 5 1959
Box 3		Crawford, Christina Sep 19 1960
Box 3		Crawford, John Aug 17 1959
Box 3		Crawford, Kenneth Nov 7 1960
Box 2		Crosby, Gary Mar 23 1961
Box 2		Crosby, John Oct 28 1959, Nov 7 1960
Box 2		Crowther, Bosley Apr 3 1960
Box 3		Cugat, Xavier Mar 30 1959
Box 3		Dahl, Roald n.d.
Box 3		D'Amato, Cus May 12 1959
Box 3		Danielsen, Terry Jul 23 1959
Box 3		Darcel, Denise Nov 4 1959
Box 3		Darin, Bobby May 31 1960, Mar 16 1961
Box 3		Dash, Samuel Nov 4 1959
Box 3		Dauphin, Claude Mar 3 1960
Box 3		Davis, Sammy, Jr. Mar 2 1959, Dec 28 1960
Box 3		Day, Dorothy Sep 9 1959
Box 3		Dee, Ruby Mar 30 1961
Box 3		DeHaven, Gloria Nov 14 1960
Box 3		Demara, F.W. Jul 7 1959
Box 3		Desai, Morarji Oct 4 1960
Box 3		DeSeversky, Alexander Apr 22 1960
Box 3		de Toledano, Ralph Apr 29 1960
Box 3		Diller, Phyllis Oct 17 1960
Box 3		Douglas, Jack Apr 6 1959
Box 3		Douglas, Melvyn Oct 9 1959
Box 3		Downs, Hugh Sep 12 1960
Box 3		Duchemp, Marcel Dec 12 1960
Box 3		East, P.D Mar 10 1961
Box 3		Eastman, Max Apr 13 1959
Box 3		Edmondson, J. Howard Oct 26 1959
Box 3		Ellis, Dr. Albert Mar 26 1959
Box 3		Emerson, Faye May 30 1960
Box 3		Evens, Maurice Nov 20 1959
Box 4		Fabian Sep 26 1960
Box 4		Falkenberg, Jinx Aug 24 1959
Box 4		Feiffer, Jules Mar 30 1960
Box 4		Fitzgerald, Ed Jan 8 1960
Box 4		Fletcher, Joseph Oct 3 1960
Box 4		Foch, Nina Oct 12 1959
Box 4		Ford, Phil and Hines, Mimi Jan 12 1961
Box 4		Francis, Anne Sep 15 1959
Box 4		Francis, Arlene Feb 24 1959
Box 4		Francis, Connie Nov 16 1960
Box 4		Frank, Gerold Mar 18 1959
Box 4		Furness, Betty Oct 1 1959, Mar 10 1961
Box 4		Gabor, Eva Jun 10 1959
Box 4		Gabor, Jolie Jul 2 1959
Box 4		Gabor, Zsa Zsa Feb 9 1961
Box 4		Galento, Tony May 1 1959
Box 4		Gang Leader Sep 30 1959
Box 4		Gardner, Hy Apr 22 1959
Box 4		Gerlich, Jackie May 1 1959
Box 4		Gifford, Frank Mar 9 1961
Box 4		Gillespie, Dizzy Mar 23 1961
Box 4		Gonzalez, Pancho Apr 15 1959
Box 4		Graham, Sheilah Feb 23 1959
Box 4		Granville, Joseph Dec 12 1960
Box 4		Gray, Robert K. Feb 3 1961
Box 4		Greco, Jose Apr 15 1960
Box 4		Greene, Gael Apr 17 1960
Box 4		Gregory, Dick Apr 10 1961
Box 4		Griffin, John Howard Mar 22 1960
Box 4		Griffith, Andy May 5 1959
Box 4		Guttmacher, Alen Jul 29 1959
Box 5		Haigh, Kenneth Mar 10 1960
Box 5		Hall, Gus Dec 17 1959, Jan 6 1961
Box 5		Hansberry, Lorraine May 8 1959
Box 5		Hardwicke , Sir Cedric Apr 2 1959
Box 5		Harriman, Averell Jul 27 1959
Box 5		Hart, Moss Oct 28 1959
Box 5		Hartford, Huntington May 12 1959
Box 5		Hauser, Gayelord Jan 26 1961
Box 5		Havoc, June Feb 25 1959
Box 5		Hayakawa, Sessue Apr 20 1959
Box 5		Hecht, Ben Mar 23 1959
Box 5		Hildegarde Nov 5 1959
Box 5		Hilgemier, Eddie Aug 10 1959
Box 5		Hillary, Sir Edmund Aug 3 1959
Box 5		Hingle, Pat Jan 14 1960
Box 5		Hodges, Luther Apr 14 1961
Box 5		Hoffmann, Dr. Richard Feb 21 1961
Box 5		Horwich, Frances Sep 16 1959
Box 5		Hughes, Emmet John Nov 5 1959
Box 5		Huie, William Bradford Mar 16 1959
Box 5		Humphrey, Hubert Mar 9 1959
Box 5		Hunter, Kim Apr 30 1961
Box 5		Hutchinson, Admiral Elmo Dec 10 1959
Box 6		Irwin, Monte Mar 14 1960
Box 6		Isaacs, Stanley Dec 23 1959
Box 6		Israel Interviews (opens and closes) n.d.
Box 6		Jaffe, Rona Sep 21 1959
Box 6		Jessel, George Aug 31 1959
Box 6		Jorgensen, Christine Apr 22 1959
Box 6		Kenny, Nuck Oct 30 1960
Box 6		King, Dennis Mar 2 1961 (?)
Box 6		King, Martin Luther Feb 2 1961
Box 6		Kinkead, Eugene Mar 18 1959
Box 6		Kintner, Earl Feb 16 1960
Box 6		Kissinger, Henry Mar 2 1961
Box 6		Kitt, Eartha Jun 17 1959, Apr 14 1961
Box 6		Kline, Nathan Mar 10 1960
Box 6		Koch, Leo F. Nov 16 1960 - additional informational material
Box 6		Laine, Frankie Apr 15 1959
Box 6		Lanchester, Elsa Aug 31 1959, Feb 23 1961
Box 6		Landis, James M. Jan 11 1961
Box 6		Lane, Abbe Mar 30 1959
Box 6		Lane, Frank Jan 24 1960
Box 6		Lanphier, Thomas Jun 2 1960
Box 6		Laurence, William L. Oct 2 1959, May 30 1960
Box 6		Laurie, Piper Jan 24 1960
Box 6		Lehman, Herbert H. Dec 30 1959
Box 6		Lemmon, Jack Oct 31 1960
Box 6		Leonard, Jack E. Mar 25 1960
Box 6		Leonetti, Tommy Mar 23 1959
Box 6		Lerner, Max Oct 10 1960
Box 7		Levin, Meyer Sep 28 1959
Box 7		Levy, Raoul Sep 23 1959
Box 7		Leyra, Camilo (Weston) Apr 2 1959
Box 7		Lilo Nov 14 1960
Box 7		London, Ephraim Apr 28 1959
Box 7		Loos, Anita Apr 6 1961
Box 7		Lorre, Peter Feb 17 1960
Box 7		Louis, Joe May 26 1960
Box 7		Louise, Tina Mar 2 1960
Box 7		Lovejoy, Frank Apr 14 1960
Box 7		Loy, Myrna Oct 17 1960
Box 7		Lumet, Sidney Feb 25 1960
Box 7		Lynley, Carol Mar 3 1961
Box 7		Lytess, Natasha Nov 21 1960
Box 7		MacDonald, Jeanette Aug or Sept 1959
Box 7		Machado, China Mar 21 1961
Box 7		Maclver, Joyce Feb 3 1961
Box 7		MacLaine, Shirley Nov 23 1959
Box 7		Mailer, Norman Nov 18 1959
Box 7		Malden, Karl Mar 17 1961
Box 7		Mankowitz, Wolf Mar 16 1960
Box 7		Mannes, Marya Apr 3 1960, Oct 25 1960
Box 7		March, Hal Mar 9 1961
Box 7		Mason, Pamela Dec 26 1960
Box 7		Maurois, Andre Nov 16 1960
Box 7		Maxwell, Elsa Apr 14 1961
Box 7		McBride, Mary Margaret Dec 13 1960
Box 7		McDonald, Marie Apr 6 1959
Box 7		McDowell, Roddy Apr 14 1961
Box 7		McKay, Gardner May 19 1960
Box 7		McManus. Virginia n.d.
Box 7		McVey, Jackson Apr 3 1960
Box 7		Meacham. Anne Nov 28 1960
Box 7		Meadows, Jayne Mar 26 1959
Box 7		Medina, Harold Sep 2 1959
Box 7		Menon, V.K. Krishna Nov 6 1959
Box 7		Merriam, Eve Nov 7 1960
Box 7		Merrick, David Jan 12 1961
Box 7		Mesta, Perle Apr 14 1960
Box 7		Meyer, Frank Jan 5 1961
Box 7		Michelfelder, William Oct 3 1960
Box 8		Michener, James Sep 27 1960
Box 8		Mineo, Sal May 10 1960, Sep 19 1960
Box 8		Montagu, Ashley Sep 13 1960
Box 8		Mr. John Apr 28 1959
Box 8		Muggeridge, Malcolm Sep 26 1960
Box 8		Mulligan. Gerry Jul 1 1959
Box 8		Murray, Ken Feb 11 1960
Box 8		Murray, Mac Nov 18 1959
Box 8		Myerson, Bess Oct 18 1960
Box 8		Nagel, Conrad Oct 16 1959
Box 8		Newmar, Julie Apr 15 1959, Feb 23 1961
Box 8		Nichols, Mike Dec 20 1960
Box 8		Novarro, Ramon Nov 27 1959
Box 8		Obolensky, Serge Mar 30 1959
Box 8		O'Brien, Margaret Mar 9 1961
Box 8		Odero-Jour, J.G. Nov 16 1960 (?)
Box 8		O'Keefe, Dennis Sep 15 1959
Box 8		O'Leary, Frank Jul 9 1959
Box 8		Pasternak. Joseph Oct 30 1959
Box 8		Pauling, Linus, Dr. Oct 24 1960
Box 8		Paxinou, Katina Oct 5 1959
Box 8		Pernot, Dom Placide Sep 19 1960
Box 8		Petrovskaya, Kyra May 8 1959
Box 8		Pike, Bishop James A. Feb 21 1961
Box 8		Pincus, Gregory, Dr. Nov 22 1960
Box 8		Poston, Tom May 22 1959
Box 8		Powell, Adam C. Mar 16 1959
Box 8		Preminger, Otto Jun 23 1959, Jan 12 1961
Box 8		Prinz, Joachim Jan 8 1960
Box 8		Quill, Michael J. Apr 22 1959, Sep 26 1960
Box 8		Rand, Ayn Feb 25 1959, Apr 18 1960, Mar 17 1961
Box 8		Randall, Tony Sep 2 1959
Box 8		Randell, Ron Aug 5 1959
Box 8		Randolph, A. Philip Oct 21 1959
Box 8		Regler, Gustav Mar 3 1960
Box 9		Remick, Lee Aug 26 1959, Jan 27 1960
Box 9		Reuther, Walter Oct 4 1960
Box 9		Reynolds, Quentin Sep 27 1960 n.d.
Box 9		Rich, Buddy Sep 3 1959, Dec 6 1960
Box 9		Riesel, Victor Oct 23 1959, Dec 28 1960
Box 9		Ritchard, Cyril Apr 14 1961
Box 9		Robbins, Dr. Lewis Feb 10 1961
Box 9		Robustelli, Andy Apr 11 1961
Box 9		Rocca, Antonino Apr 22 1960
Box 9		Roosevelt, F.D. Jr. May 25 1959
Box 9		Roosevelt, James May 25 1959
Box 9		Roosevelt. Mrs. T., Jr. Jul 24 1959
Box 9		Rosenfeld, Henry Nov 8 1960
Box 9		Rosensohn, William Jun 23 1959
Box 9		Rosten, Leo Oct 7 1959
Box 9		Roth, Philip Mar 28 1960
Box 9		Ruark, Robert Sep 1959 (?)
Box 9		Rule, Janice Apr 11 1961
Box 9		Sahl, Mort Apr 6 1960
Box 9		St. John, Robert Oct 18 1960
Box 9		Salisbury, Harrison Oct 22 1959
Box 9		Sandburg, Carl Sep 12 1960
Box 9		Schary, Dore Mar 16 1961
Box 9		Scopes, John T Oct 10 1960
Box 9		Scott, Hazel Apr 14 1961
Box 9		Scott, Zachary Feb 2 1961
Box 9		Seal, Elizabeth Jan 12 1961
Box 9		Seberg, Jelin Mar 17 1961
Box 9		Segal, Harry "Champ" Feb 15 1961
Box 9		Serling, Rod Sep 15 1959
Box 9		Sheean, Vincent Mar 7 1960
Box 9		Sherek, Henry Dec 30 1959
Box 9		Shirer, William Nov 29 1960
Box 9		Shor, Toots May 15 1959
Box 9		Sillman, Leonard Oct 23 1959
Box 9		Skinner, Cornelia Otis Oct 2 1959
Box 9		Smith, H. Allen Mar 14 1960
Box 10		Smith, Merriman Feb 10 1961
Box 10		Sokolsky, George Mar 9 1960
Box 10		Soraci, Carmelo Apr 6 1961
Box 10		Soustelle, Jacques Mar 30 1960
Box 10		Stapleton, Maureen May 1 1959
Box 10		Steiger, Rod Nov 22 1960
Box 10		Sterling, Jan Mar 16 1960
Box 10		Stern, Bill Oct 9 1959
Box 10		Stern, Isaac Jan 12 1961
Box 10		Stevens, Inger Dec 20 1959
Box 10		Stevens, Leslie Apr 6 1960 (?)
Box 10		Stevenson, Adlai Sep 14 1959
Box 10		Stone, Willis Oct 11 1960 - additional informational material
Box 10		Stritch, Elaine Mar 12 1959 (?)
Box 10		Styne, Jule Mar 2 1960
Box 10		Susskind, David Apr 28 1959, Sep 20 1960
Box 10		Taylor, Renee Jan 6 1961
Box 10		Tillstrom, Bur Nov 8 1960
Box 10		Todd, Mike Jr. Feb 11 1960
Box 10		Torme, Mel Feb 17 1961
Box 10		Tracy, Vincent Jan 5 1961
Box 10		Trapp, Maria Dec 6 1960, Dec 20 1960
Box 10		Umeki, Myoshi Apr 20 1959
Box 10		Uphaus, Willard Dr. dec 13 1960
Box 10		Ustinov, Peter Jul 21 1959
Box 10		Vallee, Rudy Jul 14 1959
Box 10		Vanderbilt, Amy Nov 25 1959
Box 10		Van Dyke, Dick Feb 17 1961
Box 10		Van Fleet, General James Jun 9 1959
Box 11		Van Horne, Harriet Apr 29 1960
Box 11		Van Rensselaer, Philip Apr 15 1960
Box 11		Veeck, Bill Jan 24 1960
Box 11		Vidal, Gore May 8 1959, Apr 18 1960, Dec 12 1960, Dec 13 1960
Box 11		Vidie, Ambassador D. Mar 17 1960
Box 11		Wagner, Robert F. Jan 25 1960
Box 11		Walcott, Jersey Joe Aug 1959 (?)
Box 11		Walker, Nancy Feb 3 1961
Box 11		Wallach, Eli Dec 4 1959, Jan 26 1961
Box 11		Waters, Ethel Apr 9 1959
Box 11		Waugh, Alec Apr 8 1960
Box 11		Wechsler, James May 23 1960
Box 11		Wertham, Dr. Frederic Jan 28 1960, Apr 25 1960, Nov 1 1960
Box 11		Wheeler, Bert May 5 1959
Box 11		Whiteman, Paul May 18 1960
Box 11		Williams, Governor G. Mennen Apr 15 1959
Box 11		Williams, Tennessee Nov 14 1960
Box 11		Winters, Jonathan Mar 25 1960
Box 11		Wismer, Harry Nov 8 1960
Box 11		Wiznitzer, Louis Oct 18 1960
Box 11		Wyman, Louis Dec 19 1960
Box 11		Youngman, Henny Jan 26 1961
Box 11		Zolotov, Maurice Apr 4 1960, Nov 14 1960

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