On October 12, 1947, Christopher Wallace, an American journalist and former Fox News Sunday news anchor, was born.
Wallace is known for his frank and broad interviews, and his father, 60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace, is frequently compared to him.
Wallace was a teenager when he worked as an aide to Walter Cronkite during the 1964 Republican National Convention.
After graduating from Harvard University, he worked as a national correspondent for The Boston Globe, where his boss described him as a “aggressive and ambitious reporter.”
He decided to pursue a career in broadcast journalism after witnessing the impact of television on news at the 1972 Republican National Convention.
He began his career as a White House correspondent for NBC (1975–1988), alongside CBS’s Lesley Stahl and ABC’s Sam Donaldson.
What did Chris Wallace’s wife say about him?
Wallace’s wife, Lorraine, told The Washington Post that he is a man who believes “change is overrated.”
With so much change in the air these days, his wife suggests that a calm, quiet presence might not be such a bad thing after all.
