Mike Wallace Interview Subjects - Harry Ransom Center

Salvador Dali 4/19/58
Diana Dors 11/9/57
Kirk Douglas 11/2/57
William O. Douglas 5/11/58
James Eastland 7/28/57
Cyrus Eaton 5/17/57
Abba Eban 4/12/58
Eldon Lee Edwards 5/5/57
Gov. Orval Faubus 9/15/57
Bob Feller 8/4/57
Eric Fromm 5/25/58
Salvador Dali, the surrealist painter, talks to Wallace about genius, the subconscious,
weakness, old age and luxury, death, religion, and dreams.
Diana Dors, England's answer to Brigit Bardot and Marilyn Monroe, talks to Wallace about
England's attitude toward sex, publicity stunts, the entertainment business, and the price
Kirk Douglas, a film star who had recently completed two films, Paths of Glory and The
Vikings, talks to Wallace about acting, fame, the charge that Hollywood films misrepresent
America abroad, Nazis, Communists, and European versus American women.
William Douglas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, talks with
Wallace about freedom of expression and the freedom to exchange ideas. In Douglas's
book, The Right of the People, he wrote, "In recent years, as we have denounced the loss
of liberties abroad we have witnessed its decline here in America."
Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, who has been called "The Voice of the White
South," talks to Wallace about segregation, slavery, the Soviet Union, voting rights laws,
Cyrus Eaton, a successful Cleveland industrialist and businessman and outspoken critic of
the United States’ foreign and military policies, talks to Wallace about how American’s
freedoms are being destroyed by the Cold War.
As Israel celebrates its tenth anniversary, Abba Eban, Israel's ambassador to the United
States, talks to Wallace about Arab nations, the Arab refugee problem, Egypt's President
Nasser, Jews in America, and the charge that Israel threatens world peace with a policy of
Eldon Edwards, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, talks to Wallace about the South's
attitude toward the KKK, the Klan's membership, segregation, the NAACP, communism,
and J. Edgar Hoover.
Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, talks to Wallace from the Governor's mansion in
Little Rock during his standoff with the Federal Government over the integration of Little
Rock Central High School. Faubus had called in the National Guard to bar the African-
American students from the school and had met the day before this interview with
President Eisenhower in an effort to resolve the conflict.
Bob Feller, one of the great baseball pitchers of all time, talks to Wallace about ballplayers'
salaries, the reserve clause, rich ball clubs, Pay TV, beer companies as sponsors, bean
balls, gambling, and Joe DiMaggio versus Ted Williams.
Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and social critic, talks to Wallace about society, materialism,
relationships, government, religion, and happiness.
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Age 91
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Age 90
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