Stanley Burke, former anchor of CBC’s The National, dies at 93

KINGSTON, Ont. – The CBC is reporting that a former anchor of its nightly newscast died at 93 in Kingston, Ont., Saturday.

The broadcaster says that Stanley Burke hosted The National News from 1966 to 1969, before the show was re-branded as The National.

They say Burke was also a foreign correspondent, and he reported from Berlin just after the barricades went up separating East and West Germany in 1961.

The CBC says Burke launched a campaign to raise awareness of the Biafran civil war, a battle in Nigeria to fight the secession of Biafra as an independent state.

After he retired, Burke wrote several children’s books, including Frog Fables & Beaver Tales, which was originally published in 1973, and The Day of the Revolution, which was published the following year.

The funeral and memorial service will be held on Amherst Island near Kingston on June 2, according to the CBC.