Stanley Burke
| Stanley Burke, Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 8, 1923 |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Kingston, Ontario |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | journalist, news presenter, author |
| Television | The National |
Stanley Burke, Jr. (February 8, 1923 – May 28, 2016) was a Canadian television journalist. He was the anchor of CBC Television's The National News from 1966 to 1969. The show was renamed The National after he resigned to launch a public campaign to bring attention to the Nigerian Civil War and the humanitarian crisis in the secessionist state of Biafra.
Burke's father was businessman Stanley Burke, founder of Pemberton Securities, a stockbroking firm in Western Canada.[1]
Following his retirement from the CBC, Burke also wrote a number of books satirizing Canadian politics in the form of children's stories, including Swamp Song, Frog Fables and Beaver Tales and The Day of the Glorious Revolution. In the 1980s he was publisher with partner Jack McCann of the weekly newspaper Nanaimo Times in Nanaimo, British Columbia. His brother was Lieutenant-Commander Cornelius Burke, a prominent Royal Canadian Navy officer during World War II.[1]
Burke died at the Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario on May 28, 2016, aged 93.[2]
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| Preceded by | Anchor of The National News CBC TV Nighttime National News 1966–1969 |
Succeeded by Warren Davis |
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