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Oct 23, 2001 · Robert K. Burns Jr., a retired professor and father to two well-known documentary producers, died of respiratory failure Tuesday. He was 76. His sons, Ken and Ric Burns, produced the 11-hour PBS documentary "The Civil War." Ken Burns also produced histories of baseball and jazz music, while the final segments of Ric Burns' "New York" aired ...
ROBERT KYLE BURNS. July 26, 1896–June 26, 1982. ROBERT KYLE BURNS WAS born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on July 26, 1896, and died in Bridgewater, Virginia, on June 26, 1982. His long and productive scientific career was devoted to understanding the processes of sexual differentiation in vertebrates. He pioneered the experimental manipulation ...
Brief Life History of Robert Kyle. Robert K. Burns Jr., was born on June 8, 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He married Lyla Smith Tupper of Clarksburg, West Virginia on April Fools Day of 1950. He was a widowed retired professor and father to two well-known documentary producers, when he died of respiratory failure at age 76 in 2001.
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May 23, 2018 · 2001 (75-76) Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Immediate Family: Son of Robert Kyle Burns and Emily Lucille Burns. Husband of Lyla Smith Burns. Father of Ken Burns and Private. Brother of John Hobert Burns. Managed by: Andrew Quinn Champion.
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ROBERT KYLE BURNS July 26, 1896–June 26, 1982 BY JAMES MURRAY R OBERT KYLE BURNS WAS born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on July 26, 1896, and died in Bridgewater, Virginia, on June 26, 1982. His long and productive scientific career was devoted to understanding the processes of sexual differen-tiation in vertebrates. He pioneered the ...
My father, Robert Kyle Burns, Jr., was a cultural anthropologist. His area of study was Alpine and Mediterranean peasants. My first memory, at age two and a half—it’s just a short clip, a fragmentary mental movie—was of him building a photographic darkroom in the basement of our tract house in a development in Newark, Delaware.
Sep 21, 2007 · An unidentified photograph of Lt. Robert Kyle Burns Jr. is the first and last image in “The War,” a 15-hour documentary series about World War II. It launches Sunday.. Burns hadn’t planned ...