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Led to a $120 million lible suit. westmoreland and accused wallace and others at cbs of a report slanted and untrue. the case was settled out of court. he made his battle with depression public. he took on the tobacco industry and eventually his own network. >> they just did not want this piece to go on the air because they were in the middle of negotiations with westinghouse to sell cbs to westinghouse and westinghouse would not want to buy cbs if it could conceivably be buying at the same time...

I dont trust you. >> national pastime... >> it is. >> throughout his career, he found himself to be the story. a documentary he generated on general william westmoreland led to a $120 million liable suit, accusing wallace and others at cbs of producing a report slanted and untrue and the case was settled out of court. later, wallace made his battle with depression public, and he said he suffered because of that lawsuit. always unafraid of controversy, in the 1990s, he took on the tobacco industr...