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James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer. He was one of the main presenters of the BBC1 science series Tomorrow's World from 1965 to 1971 and created and presented the television series Connections (1978), and its more philosophical sequel The Day the Universe Changed (1985), about the history of science and technology.
Burke was born in Rutland, Vermont, on February 28, 1925, to James Burke, a former marble salesman turned insurance salesman, [11] and Mary Barnett Burke, [12] a homemaker. [10] He was raised middle-class in the small town of Slingerlands, New York, near Albany. [13] [14] Multiple members of his family were later successful in business.
Burke published a "fast paced crime novel" in 1954, Three Days pass – To Kill. A German edition titled Ami – Go Home! was translated by Dietrich Bogulinski. [13] Burke published a total of 26 works. [14] The manuscript of the novel Of a Strange Woman (1955) is stored in the University of Kentucky Special Collections. [15] [16]
James Burke (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996), also known as "Jimmy the Gent", was an American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, the largest cash robbery in American history at the time. He was believed to be responsible for the deaths of those involved in the months after ...
The Day the Universe Changed: A Personal View by James Burke is a British documentary television series written and presented by science historian James Burke, originally broadcast on BBC1 from 19 March until 21 May 1985 by the BBC. The series' primary focus is on the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its ...
James "Jim" Robert Burke (born November 29, 1961, in Sacramento, California) is an American author who resides in San Francisco, California. He taught English at Burlingame High School until 2019, at which point he began teaching at Middle College High School on the College of San Mateo campus. He retired in June 2022.
James Burke was born in Petroleum Center, Pennsylvania to Irish immigrants. [1] He studied law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he graduated 1892. While at Michigan he organized the American Republican College League, the predecessor to the College Republicans.
Burke was a New York City police officer in the 1980s. He later began working for the Suffolk County Police Department in Suffolk County, New York.In 1995, a Suffolk County Police Department internal probe found that Burke had "had a relationship with a woman engaged in prostitution and drug dealing, and had engaged in sex acts in police vehicles while on duty and in uniform".