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Chris Wallace (b. October 12, 1947) is an American journalist, currently the host of Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Wallace has been with Fox News since 2003.
Early Career
Wallace was born in Chicago. He is the son of Mike Wallace, the longtime reporter for 60 Minutes on CBS, and Norma Kaphan. His parents divorced when he was one year old, and he grew up with his stepfather Bill Leonard, eventually CBS News President. He only developed a relationship with his biological father in his teens, after his older brother Peter died "climbing a mountain" in Greece.
Leonard gave him early exposure to political journalism, hiring him as an assistant to Walter Cronkite at the 1964 Republican National Convention.
Wallace attended Harvard University, where he was a classmate of Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones. He first reported news on air for WHRB, the student radio station at Harvard College. He memorably covered the 1969 occupation of University Hall by radical students and was detained by Cambridge police, signing off a report from Cambridge City Jail.
Although accepted at Harvard Law School, Wallace instead took a job with the Boston Globe. He says he realized he wanted to move to television when he noticed all the reporters at the 1972 political conventions were watching the proceedings on TV, instead of in person.
Wallace began his network journalism career with NBC in 1975 as a reporter with WNBC-TV in New York City. Wallace then transferred to NBC's Washington bureau as a political correspondent, and later served as Washington co-anchor for the Today show in 1982. He also served as chief White House correspondent (1982-89), moderator of Meet the Press (1987-88), and anchor of the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News.
Wallace left NBC in 1989 for ABC. At ABC, Wallace was the senior correspondent for Primetime Thursday and occasionally hosted Nightline. During the first Gulf War in 1991, Chris Wallace reported from Tel Aviv on the Iraqi Scud missiles attacks. At the time, the Israeli Government did not want to advertise where the Scuds landed, in order to prevent the Iraqis from making adjustments to their launchers. On one episode of Nightline, Wallace started describing the location in Tel Aviv where a Scud missile landed. Nightline's host Ted Koppel cut him off, respecting Israeli national security needs.
He currently hosts Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, and is an occasional guest on the Howie Carr show on Boston's WRKO.
During his career, Wallace has won three Emmy Awards, the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton Award, and a Peabody Award. Wallace's book Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage was published in September 2004.
Bill Clinton interview controvesy (September 2006)
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In September of 2006, Wallace interviewed former President Bill Clinton. The interview aired on Sunday September 24, 2006 on "Fox News Sunday". Before the interview, it was agreed that Wallace would ask Clinton about the Clinton Global Initiative along with some other relevant political topics for a total of fifteen minutes.
During the interview, Clinton accused Wallace of performing a "right-wing hit job". Wallace had asked Clinton a question regarding the steps his administration took during his presidency to eliminate the threats from Osama bin Laden. Wallace, apparently quoting e-mails from viewers, asked the former US President: "Why didn't you do more to put bin Laden and Al Qaeda out of business when you were president?". Clinton responded passionately, defending his strategy in this regard and his actions as a President. However, he was visibly agitated and angry that Wallace had asked the question. Clinton remarked "So you did Fox's bidding on this show. You did your nice little conservative hit job on me, I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked this question of? ... And you've got that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever. But I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I regret it".
Even as Wallace repeatedly tried to move the discussion back to the Clinton Global Initiative, Clinton continued to talk about efforts he took to fight terrorism during his presidency in order to correct what he termed a "serious disinformation campaign."
Later, Wallace commented regarding this incident saying "All I did was ask him a question, and I think it was a legitimate news question. I was surprised that he would conjure up that this was a hit job".
24.41.36.44 05:15, 25 September 2006 (UTC)Judd==External links==
- FOX News biography
- September 2006 interview with Bill Clinton on youtube.com
- Transcript of Clinton interview
- Son of '60 Minutes' icon makes his own mark at Fox News
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