Career
A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Hines began his career as a newspaper reporter. He wrote for the Memphis Tri-State Defender and the Chicago Daily News throughout the 1960s. From 1968 until 1974, Hines was a correspondent for WBBM-TV in Chicago.
In 1974, he joined WBBM-TV-television as the station"s editorial director
He transitioned to being an on-air reporter for the television station, a position he held until retiring in 2001. He covered many types of stories including.
Crime, human interest stories, and animal stories. His great love was working on the streets, reporting on ordinary people doing remarkable things.
In 1968, Hines co-authored the book Nightmare in Detroit: A Rebellion and its Victims, with Van Gordon Sauter, who went on to become president of Columbia Broadcasting System News.
The book is about Detroit riots in July, 1967.
