In 1989 , Wallace was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania . Wallace 's professional honors included 21 Emmy Awards , among them a report just weeks before the September 11 attacks for an investigation on the former Soviet Union 's smallpox program and concerns about terrorism . He also won three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards , three George Foster Peabody Awards , a Robert E. Sherwood Award , a Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Southern California School of Journalism and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in the international broadcast category . In September 2003 , Wallace received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy , his 20th . Most recently , on October 13 , 2007 , Wallace was awarded the University of Illinois Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Mike Wallace