Burleigh Hines was a retired Chicago television news reporter.

A native of Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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, Hines began his career as a newspaper reporter. He wrote for the Memphis Tri-State Defender

Memphis Tri-State Defender

The Memphis Tri-State Defender is an African American newspaper published in Memphis, Tennessee.The Tri-State Defender is one of the longest continuously-published African American papers in the Southern United States and as such is quite prestigious for a publication of its type. It was very...

 and the Chicago Daily News

Chicago Daily News

The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The Daily News was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Dougherty in 1875 and began publishing early the next year...

 in the 1960s.

From 1968 until 1974, Hines was a correspondent for WBBM

WBBM (AM)

WBBM is an all-news CBS radio station in Chicago, Illinois broadcasting on the AM dial at 780 kHz. It is owned by CBS along with WBBM-TV....

 in Chicago. In 1974, he joined WBBM-TV

WBBM-TV

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 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, from crime to human interest to 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

CBS News

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. The book is about riots in Detroit in July 1967.