Burleigh Hines, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetBurleigh Hines
American journalist
Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1932
Date of Death: 08-Nov-2009
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Burleigh Hines
- Burleigh Hines (August 26, 1935 - November 8, 2009) was an American television news reporter. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Hines began his career as a newspaper reporter.
- He wrote for the Memphis Tri-State Defender and the Chicago Daily News throughout the 1960s.From 1968 until 1974, Hines was a correspondent for WBBM in Chicago.
- In 1974, he joined WBBM-TV as the station's editorial director.
- He transitioned to being an on-air reporter for the TV station, a position he held until retiring in 2001.
- He covered many types of stories including; crime, human interest stories, and animal stories.
- His great love was working on the streets, reporting on ordinary people doing remarkable things. In 1968, Hines co-authored the book Nightmare in Detroit: A Rebellion and its Victims, with Van Gordon Sauter, who went on to become president of CBS News.
- The book is about Detroit riots in July, 1967.
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