1. Christopher Wallace was born on October 12,1947 and is an American broadcast journalist.
47 Facts About Chris Wallace
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Chris Wallace is known for his tough and wide-ranging interviews, for which he is often compared to his father, 60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace.
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Chris Wallace has won three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a George Polk Award, the duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award.
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Chris Wallace transitioned towards broadcast news at NBC, where he served as a White House correspondent, the Sunday anchor for NBC Nightly News and moderator of Meet the Press.
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Chris Wallace then worked for ABC, where he served as an anchor for Primetime Thursday and Nightline.
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Chris Wallace is the only person to have served as host and moderator of more than one of the major US political Sunday morning talk shows, which he did during his time at NBC.
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Chris Wallace made history when he became the first Fox News journalist to moderate a United States Presidential debate in 2016 between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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Chris Wallace returned to moderate the 2020 debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
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In November 2024, Chris Wallace left CNN following the expiration of his three year contract.
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Chris Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois, to longtime CBS 60 Minutes reporter Mike Chris Wallace and Norma Kaphan.
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Chris Wallace was named Christopher because he was born on Columbus Day.
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Chris Wallace had an elder brother, Peter, who died at the age of 19 after a mountain climbing accident.
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Chris Wallace's parents divorced when he was one year old; he grew up with his mother and stepfather Bill Leonard, President of CBS News.
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Chris Wallace did not develop a relationship with his father, Mike, until the age of 14.
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Chris Wallace first reported news on-air for WHRB, the student radio station at Harvard.
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Chris Wallace noticed the power of television when he saw all the reporters at the 1972 political conventions were watching the proceedings on television instead of in person.
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Chris Wallace began his network journalism career with NBC in 1975, where he stayed for 14 years as a reporter with WNBC-TV in New York City.
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Chris Wallace then transferred to NBC's Washington bureau as a political correspondent for NBC News and later served as Washington co-anchor and news reader for the Today show with Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley in 1982.
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Chris Wallace later served as anchor of the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News, and moderator of Meet the Press.
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On May 18,1985, as part of an NBC News special, Chris Wallace did a joint interview with Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan at Camp David.
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On one episode of Nightline, Chris Wallace started describing the location where a Scud missile landed in Tel Aviv.
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On March 3,2016, Chris Wallace joined Bret Baier, and Megyn Kelly in moderating the 2016 Republican Party Presidential debate on Fox News.
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Chris Wallace received notable praise from both sides of the aisle for his tough questioning of both presidential candidates at that last presidential debate of the 2016 election.
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Chris Wallace questioned Putin about why so many of his political opponents end up dead, and sought to hand Putin papers containing the indictment of 12 Russian agents for interference in the 2016 election.
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Chris Wallace's interview earned him a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Interview.
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On January 27,2020, Chris Wallace got into a heated exchange with conservative pundit Katie Pavlich of TownHall.
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On July 19,2020, Chris Wallace sat down with President Donald Trump for a wide-ranging interview outside The White House.
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Chris Wallace earned praise for holding Trump accountable and fact-checking him in real time.
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On November 3, Chris Wallace joined Brit Hume, Juan Williams, and Dana Perino in Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum's election night coverage of the 2020 presidential election on Fox News.
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Chris Wallace defended the network's decision to call Arizona for Biden over Trump despite being under tremendous pressure from Trump and his campaign.
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Chris Wallace stated the show was inspired by Larry King, Charlie Rose, and his father Mike Chris Wallace.
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Chris Wallace had complained to Fox management about its opinion hosts, in particular Sean Hannity's and Tucker Carlson's increasing emphasis on untruths about the January 6 United States Capitol attack and the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
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Chris Wallace said the work environment at Fox grew "increasingly unsustainable" for him after the 2020 election.
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Puck News claimed that prior to the announcement of his departure, CNN CEO Mark Thompson had informed Wallace that Who's Talking and The Chris Wallace Show would be cancelled due to low ratings, but that he was welcome to stay on as an analyst on a significantly reduced salary.
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Chris Wallace denied to Puck that he discussed a future role on CNN, and said that he decided with his wife to leave the network six months before his announcement.
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Chris Wallace competed against BBC journalist Katty Kay, and television personality Dr Oz.
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Chris Wallace won the game with $22,400 to Kay's $8,000 and Oz's $5,900.
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In July 2019, Chris Wallace appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote a documentary about his father, Mike Chris Wallace is Here.
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Chris Wallace has said that despite his blood relationship with his father, Mike, his stepfather, Bill Leonard, had far more impact on his life.
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Chris Wallace said that Leonard was "the single most important person in my life".
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Chris Wallace first developed a relationship with his father in his teens, after his older brother Peter died in 1962 climbing a mountain in Greece.
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Chris Wallace's daughter-in-law, Jennifer Breheny Chris Wallace, wife of his son Peter, is a journalist and bestselling author of the 2023 New York Times best selling book Never Enough.
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In 2006, The Washington Post reported that Chris Wallace was registered as a Democrat in Washington, DC, and had been so for more than two decades.
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In 2016, Chris Wallace was portrayed by Tom Hanks on Saturday Night Live in the Third Presidential Debate Cold Open.
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In 2019, Chris Wallace was portrayed by Marc Evan Jackson in Jay Roach's film Bombshell.
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In June 2020, Chris Wallace published his third book, Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World, with Mitch Weiss.
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In October 2024, Chris Wallace published his fourth book, Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America's Politics Forever, again co-written by Weiss.