>> glor: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor. he loved being mike wallace. that is what cbs news chairman ed "60 minutes" executive producer jeff sager said today. he loved the fact that if he showed up for an interview, it ed lastople nervous. mike wallace died last night at a care facility in connecticut at the age of 93. his fellow "60 minutes" morley safermorley safer tonight looks back. >> >> he was doing what? with you. why, why? >> you demanded spe t.ally? when you boil it down to low rravy. whademanded special treatment. you needed money. or halfmost an embarrassment sir, to hear this from you. what? what do they want you to do? dreadedyou so reluctant. >> for half a century he took encore rupt politician, scam artists and bureaucratic bumblers. tand.me on out. you don't want to talk to me? >> reporter: his visit preceded by the four dreaded words, mike wallace is here. >> i don't understand. they must be ashamed of something. >> why are you sad? th what is this? ho this is "60 minutes". >> wow. me doggone i wish they didn't >>y that, though. >> i want to read you some orings. >> reporter: mike took to heart the old reporter's pledge to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. >> you are contemptible. i like you to get out of here. >> i'm nosey and insistent. a reporter: so insistent there were very few 20th century icons who did not submit to a mike wallace interview. he lectured vladimir putin, the president of russia encore ruption. >> to get anything done-- on urrruption. io he lectured yassir arafat on violence. he asked the ayatollah khomeini wf he was crazy. >> and he calls you imam, forgive me, his word, not mine, o lunatic. a> reporter: he traveled with martin luther king. >> a large segment of white society is more concerned about tranquillity and the status quo than about justice and humannity. >> he remains my hero. >> so what! >> reporter: he grappled with rraks farrakhan. t. i think you should keep quiet! >> remain strong! >> reporter: and he interviewed n.lcolm x shortly before his assassination. e> i probably am a dead man inready. >> i came here with a belief. b> reporter: he was no stronger to the white house. interviewing his friends the reagans. >> why hasn't this job weighed as heavily on you as it has on some other occupants of this oval office? >> well, mike, i don't what the waswer to that would be. well, maybe none of them had a nancy. >> reporter: there he was with k that nexty, with lyndon johnson. >> so you think that next time around... >> reporter: with jimmy carter, even with eleanor roosevelt. >> the good many people hated your husband. they even hated you. >> a great many do still. >> reporter: make a noise. >> all those remarkable characters. >> come on, mike. >> reporter: leonard bernstein, johnny carson, pavarotti, janice joplin, tina turner, salvador iali, barbra streisand. >> you would love to control this piece? >> absolutely. are you kidding? >> what are you trying to prove? >> nothing. >> reporter: his take no cisoner style became so famous y. even spoofed it with comedian jack benny. ns i'm not going! i don't have to answer anything. i don't. i don't. i don't. ( laughter ) >> reporter: it's hard to believe but when mike was born in 1918 there wasn't even a adio in most american homes, ieve less tv. >> i was a pretty good kid. you know, i was-- i was-- i was .n overachiever. i worked very hard. played a hell of a fiddle. >> reporter: at the university of michigan were his parents hoped he would become a doctor or a lawyer, he got hooked instead on radio. and by 1941 mike was the announcer on the green hornet. rikeide, another pulling, the green hornet strikes again. no my family didn't know what to make of it. an announcer? >> reporter: and soon the hardest working anouncer in oaoadcasting. >> hello. i'm mike wallace with real news. >> reporter: when television arrived in the 1950s, mike was everywhere. variety shows, game shows, dramas, commercials. >> it's procter & gamble's golden fluffo. >> good evening, i'm mike wallace. in show is "nightbeat." >> reporter: but it was an knorview show called "nightbeat" first broadcast in 1956 that mike remembers fit him like custom made brass knuckles. ded let do you know about that? who in the united states is qualified? what kind of people are your eriends? >> we decided let's ask the irreverent, the abrasive, the who gives a damn question. >> reporter: some like labor leader mike quill had never been spoken to that way. >> i simply am asking a question. >> i'm ready any time you want to repeat the stupid question. >> reporter: neither had mobster mickey colen. >> you killed at least one man, asw many more? >> "60 minutes," volume one, number one. >> reporter: so when 60 minutes was-- "60 minutes" was born in 1968, mike brought with him his night beat persona and contributed 40 years worth of noseiness, impertinence, and kf course drama. >> now wait just a moment. s, eold it a minute, goddamn it. >> reporter: mike loved to mix sponp, with producers, editors, dven his fellow corespondents. >> i mean we were colleagues and competitors at the same time. when i wanted to do a story and you wanted to do a story and it is the same story. >> i come into the >> and. i come into the office the next day, you are out of town doing the story. >> reporter: but beneath the confident, even cocky exterior, ckye had his demon. three times over the years he er ttreated for severe depression. md revealed to me a few years back that he once tried to end it all with an overdose of leeping pills. >> did you try to commit suicide ?t one point? >> i never said this before. yeah, i tried. >> reporter: there are those that think that thanks to his wife, mary, mike mellowed a bit ecenecent years. >> hello? >> reporter: but as the specter mentetirement bore down, mike fought it with customary defiance. m do you feel it's time to maybe pack it in and reflect? >> reflect about what? reflect what am i going to reflect about? so reporter: it was 65 years ouom mike's first appearance on ormera, a world war ii film for do yovy. >> i know something about sailing, what are you waiting for? >> reporter: to his last television appearance. >> do you think that people are going to believe you. >> reporter: a "60 minutes" interview with roger clemens, the baseball star tried to fight off accusations of steroid use. >> and never anabolic steroids? a> never. >> reporter: 65 years. it's strange but for such a tough guy, mike's all-time favorite interview was the one enth another legend, pianist vladimir horowitz so, for the up-teenth time we dust off the footage of the two of them, forces of nature both, sly, manic, egos rampant. rut mike, a red, white and blue kind of guy, horowitz played the stars and stripes forever it he ost brought tears to the aughest guy on television. astonishing what you learn and rel and see along the way. that's why a reporter's job as you know is such a joy. joy. cc >> glor: the two suspects in a tullsa, oklahoma shooting spree have been charged with first- degree murder. three people were killed, two others wounded. police made the arrest within two days of the killings based on tips from the public. more now from anna werner. ♪ amazing grace... ♪ >> reporter: the north peoria church of christ held a special service on this easter remember the victims gunned down on good friday. the multiple shootings stunned this city of 400,000 people. all the victims were black. the attacks all occurred in a small section of north tulsa. police knew only that a white man in a white truck was allegedly involved. and early today 48 hours after the shooting spree, two white men were arrested. 19-year-old jake england and 32- year-old alvin watts. >> we were desperate for leads. and that's why we made some very, very pointed requests of our community to come forward and they did. >> reporter: jake england has lived through two recent personal tragedies. two years ago his father carl was shot and killed in an altercation with a black man pernell jefferson. then in january his fiancee, the mother of their infant son took her own life. neighbor cineda bowers has lived across the street from england since he was a child. >> it's a shame that boy is a good kid, way down deep. nobody ever dug down deep enough to help him. >> reporter: the day before the shootings, england used a racial slur in a facebook posting describing who shot his father. today is two areas that my dad has been gone, he said. it's hard not to go off between that and sharan. i'm gone in the head. so far police aren't calling what happened here a hate crime. but city councilman jack henderson says for him, the answer is clear. >> somebody that committed these crimes were very up set with black people. that person happened to be a white person. the people that they happen to kill and shoot were black people. that fits the bill for me. >> reporter: police say the two suspects were definitely trying to evade capture. they were holed up in a trailer some miles north of tulsa and their burned truck was found several miles away. jeff? 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>> glor: charlie d'agata thank you. north korea says its controversial long-range rocket is ready for lift-off, claiming it is needed to launch a satellite. others say it is a test that could ultimately result in a miss will nuclear capabilities. the u.s. says if the launch proceeds, north korea could face stiff new sanctions. the cease-fire that is scheduled to go into effect in syria this week appears to be falling apart. the government demanded written guarantees that the rebels lay down their arms before it pulls back its troops and tanks. rebel groups say they will not go along with that new demand. pope benedict called for peace in syria during his appearance before the easter sunday faithful in st. peter's square today and called for new talks between israelis and palestinians. and he denounced attacks on christians in nigeria. the pope who turns 85 this year kept his service shorter than in the past. >> glor: coming up, the fight against childhood obesity. that story is next. >> glor: a judge in san francisco last week dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block mcdonald's from including toys with its happy meals. the suit said that toy giveaways contribute to childhood obesity. 17% of american kids are considered obese. for possible solutions drew leffinson looks at a new program in rhode island. >> reporter: tyler sumner loves to play basketball. but a year ago he could barely make it up and down the court. at seven years old, he was 110 pounds, nearly double the normal weight for a boy his age. he had trouble breathing and he was also at risk for diabetes. his parents, mike and kim, didn't know what to do. >> i didn't want him to be another statistic of having childhood obesity. i didn't want that to be his life. >> he would come home, his feelings would be hurt. he would say to me, "dad, i just want to be like everybody else. dad, i don't feel that great today." or "i'm tired." >> reporter: they enrolled tyler at the greater providence y.m.c.a.'s join for me program. it is sponsored by the insurance company united healthcare. kids learn about nutrition, fruit not potato chips. grilled food, not fried. and small portions, not large. director cindy mcdermott says the parents are included because most kids learn their eating habits at home. >> that's amazing! >> people think that children won't eat fruits and vegetables. they don't like those foods. they do like those foods. they need to be exposed to them and learn that they are actually better for their body. >> step right up. >> reporter: tyler lost 11 pounds during the program. has kept up the healthy habits since it ended. >> you should be so proud of yourself. >> reporter: he's now lost a total of 20 pounds and he's no longer a risk for diabetes. >> i want to say thank you mom and dad for getting me into this program, and i love you. >> when he's out there running, he's not coming to us, i can't breathe. you know? it's nice to sit on the sidelines and watch your kid do what he's always wanted to do. >> reporter: the rhode island program is an experiment. but it's been a successful one. join for me will soon be available to kids and parents in texas and louisiana. drew leffinson, cbs news, new york. >> glor: coming up on the "cbs evening news", shipping out, in remembrance of the titanic. >> glor: finally tonight, it was 100 years ago this week that the titanic set sail from southampton, england. today another ship departed southampton with its passengers and crew determined to re-create that earlier voyage, up to a point, of course. tony guida has more. >> the cruise ship that sailed from southampton this morning is on a sentimental journey to relive memories of rms titanic on the 100th anniversary of her maiden and only voyage. aboard, 1309 passenger, same number as the titanic, including philip littlejohn. his grandfather was a stewart in titanic's lavish first class. he survived. >> we always knew he was on titanic but he never talked about it, he lost too many friends that night. >> reporter: that night was april 15th, 1912, 100 years ago next sunday. at 2:20 in the morning, two and a half hours after sideswiping an iceberg the great ship went down. >> my grandfather lost his life, his body was never recovered. >> reporter: titanic would cost $400 million to replicate today. with 11 decks, a grand staircase and dripping with opulence it was designed it to be an eternal kingdom, the ship that would never die. had everything gone right, titanic would have docked at this pier on the hudson river, off 18th street in manhattan, six days after leaving southampton. her route was to stop first at cherbourg, france, then queenstown ireland before crossing to the new york. but four days into the voyage, some 400 miles south of new foundland, she hit an iceberg. the atlantic rush mood her supposedly watertight compartment. more than 2200 passengers and crew, some prominently wealthy like john jay could besaser but most immigrants looking for a better life in america, fewer than one in three survived. for some on this titanic memorial cruise, this is a holiday. but not for philip littlejohn. >> i don't even like the word cruise. i think it is a remembrance. it's a remembrance for those people without died. >> reporter: next sunday these passengers will commemorate titanic at the spot where she sank. and now rests more than two miles down. tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> glor: that is this "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor. cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. is in was synonymous today mike wallace says died. a look of the career and what made him a legend a tragedy impossible to forget a family of cyclist hit by s u v one neighbor said they're not surprised speed was a factor. a1 kick in out of oakland, united airlines says it is shutting down o,, ,,