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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...
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 ...
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.
Discover life events, stories and photos about Robert Kyle Burns (1925–2001) of Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States.
Burns was born on July 29, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, to Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns, a biotechnician, and Robert Kyle Burns Jr., at the time a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University in Manhattan. The documentary filmmaker Ric Burns is his younger brother. Burns's academic family moved frequently.
Aug 16, 2007 · The presence of Ken Burns’ father looms large in his son’s latest PBS epic. But viewers won’t know it. An unidentified photograph of Lt. Robert Kyle Burns Jr. is the first and last image in ...
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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 Sept. 23. Burns hadn't planned to use ...
