Driving over to LA yesterday I heard a couple interviews with Mike Wallace from 2005, when his second memoir was published. He was 87 at the time, and sounded just as he always had.

In the current context material, it was noted that in the past few years, as his mind went, he remembered friends and family but it was as though his TV career had never happened. Very strange.

Remembering Mike Wallace, On Point, with Tom Ashbrook

Mike Wallace, Interviewer: 'You and Me', Fresh Air, with Terry Gross

The clips from interviews that he did over the years were amazing -- Margaret Sanger in 1959, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X (saying, "I'm already a dead man" a few months before he was killed)... what a stretch of history.

He was one of the early people to come out about clinical depression. He hid it for a while -- his own doctor said it would damage his reputation, but his wife urged him to get help. His first severe bout was when he and CBS were being sued for libel by General Westmoreland for the program where they showed the misrepresentations of Viet Cong numbers during the war. That interview clip was amazing.

"Between You and Me: A Memoir" comes with an 82-minute DVD that would be interesting, I'm sure (although Publisher's Weekly called the book "tepid").

For music content: he played violin.

~ Becky in Tucson