Burleigh Hines
Burleigh Hines 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.