Albert E. Burke

Albert E. Burke (1919–1999) | Wikipedia
Yale University professor and a pioneer of public educational television. Burke was an early environmentalist, advocating for stewardship of the environment in the 1950s. He rose to national fame as an early media personality on radio and television, and as an author and in-demand public speaker.

Hartford Times 1956 — documents Dr. Burke's advocacy of resource conservation, long before many other environmentalists 

Enough Good Men: A Way of Thinking 1962 — book compiled from transcripts of Dr. Burke's television programs

Dr. Albert E. Burke | Facebook

The Burke Center for Environmental and International Studies   
About Dr. Burke Center
The Burke Center for Environmental and International Affairs is dedicated to perpetuating and promoting the works and way of thinking of Dr. Albert E. Burke. The Center hopes to  provide those interested in further investigating the “Way of Thinking” of Dr. Albert E. Burke with the materials he developed over his lifetime explaining the relationships between mankind, the environment and the political structures that can either aid or hamper what today are termed “sustainable development” and "environmental security".
Dr. Burke, A Profile
A Sought After Speaker — An Address to the Brigham Young University Student Body
Patriot
Environmentalist
Civil Rights Activist — See TV Productions | The American Stranger, and Probe: Stranger in the Ray

The most dangerous situation humanity has ever faced January 27, 2021
"...hands of the iconic Doomsday Clock remain at 100 seconds to midnight – as close to the end of humanity as the clock has ever been"

If the rationale of Dr. Burke had been heeded over all those 7 decades ago, this would not be the current situation.

Way of Thinking

Dr. Alfred E. Burke: A Timeless Educator — What He Still Teaches US
Dr. Burke's "Way of Thinking" relied on factual information, reason, analysis of cause and effect, juxtaposition, anecdote and analogy — not propaganda or mere opinion. As such, it is sorely needed in the 2020s where stubborn, mindless opinionatedness and propaganda are rampant, having reached greater and greater heights over more than half a century since the 1960s.
Dr. Burke spoke out against the propaganda of his day, what he called the name-calling, new dangerous parlor game of "creeping socialism" that appeared in the late 50s-60s under influence of the John Birch Society. That sort of baiting that seeks to inflame emotion has only escalated since then, leading to the current polarized situation in which "evidence-free" conspiracies predominate — from communism to sexism and racism.
Certainly such things as communism, sexism and racism have been and still are problems within the USA, so the issue is not whether or not they are problems. The issue is how these problems are addressed.
Dr. Burke always addressed such issues with well researched factual information and well reasoned response to such information. He did not traffic in propaganda, or any form of manipulation. He did not try to "defeat communism by thinking like a Communist"; in other words, he didn't think the US should fight fire with fire, should use dirty, underhanded totalitarian tactics against totalitarianism which would only make the US totalitarian too.
See — Government, Military, Foreign Policy, US spy agencies, Whistleblowers, Covert Action Magazine, Phil Agee, John Pilger
Dr. Burke's way of thinking is most evident in his film Cuba: The Battle of America. Instead of fighting fire with fire, he responded to those who differed from his way of thinking with educational persuasion, not with name-calling to end discussion, lying, evasion, or outbursts of heated emotion or violence — which is what makes Dr. Burke the True Patriot.

The excerpt below from Enough Good Men: A Way of Thinking [Nov 1962] in the chapter Dirt, People and History is a fine example of how Dr. Burke related historical events to the environment around us. The only aspect missing in this printed word, is merely the timing and the inflection in the way Dr. Burke presented it:

Origin of "A Pact With the Unborn" —  
   That kind of freedom grew among a people with elbowroom; few Americans in a big land. With plenty of elbowroom, twenty-three million Americans back in 1889 were free to turn their Oklahoman upside down irresponsibly [See — Land Rush of 1889]; and they didn't mind too much when the United States government stepped in to help them. Today's much larger American population has less of that "elbowroom," on farmlands, in mines, in good water, good air, or in any natural resource. Today's American has less, and poorer quality resources to work and live with. We are no longer free to do as we please with them; but many among us today still mind very much that, since stepping in to help deal with problems like that emergency in 1890, the government has never really stepped out of what were once our private affairs.
   This resentment has led to a new parlor game in this country during the last thirty years ['30s-'50s], a dangerous game of name-calling called "creeping socialism." It is played by too many Americans today who simplify things too much. Often they know little to nothing about the kind of American history made by irresponsible men who forced the government into what were then our private affairs. That record clearly shows what happens when individual Americans misuse their private affairs by making them public problems. When that point is reached, the government always steps in.
   Americans who play this dangerous new game of "creeping socialism" see that government, their government, as one of the greatest dangers to our future as a free people. In doing so they misuse the word "socialism" and they misread their own history. The problem has never been "creeping socialism" in our American government. It has always been creeping irresponsibility among too many Americans.

— Dr. Alfred E. Burke, Environmentalist | The Burke Center for Environmental and International Studies
 
See — Cuba: The Battle of America 1960

Daniel Boone (TV series) — theme song
Daniel Boone (1964 TV series) | Wikipedia — popular shortly after Dr. Burke published his book Enough Good Men (Nov 1962) that referenced "elbowroom".
Daniel Boone | Wikipedia
Elbowroom was a prominent theme in early 20th century poem Daniel Boone by American poet Arthur Guiterman.
Arthur Guiterman | Wikipedia
Daniel Boone by Arthur Guiterman
Shakespeare may have coined elbowroom in his 1597 play “King John.” The dying king in the final act is carried out into the orchard, situated on the castle grounds; breathing the fresh air, King John says, “Ah ... now my soul hath elbow room.”

"Creeping Socialism"

[I]t was around 1961 when things became difficult for our family because of “certain things” he had said on the air. ...
Among the vast material I have stored are the original tapes from his first shows on the air, from back in the early 1950’s all the way through his last shows on NBC in 1964 — when he was forced off the air. ... 
I recall that time very well, including how the John Birch Society was absolutely after him. I think they made him an honorary member. To be honest, he was a little peeved about it.  
— Helen Burke, daughter of Albert Burke

January 30, 1964. Our home burned to the ground and it was determined to be arson. This was when he decided to go off the air. 
— Helen Burke, daughter of Albert Burke
  $60,000 Fire Destroys Cheshire Home Of Dr. Albert E. Burke, Noted Lecturer | Facebook

I have listened to communists and other groups that can only be called enemies, accuse us of the worst intentions, the most inhuman ways of doing things, as the most dangerous people on earth, to be stopped and destroyed at all costs... But nothing I have heard in or from those places around us compared with the experience I had in the Dallas home of an American, whose hate for this country's leaders, and the way our institutions worked, was the most vicious, venomous and dangerous I have known in my life. No communist ever heard, no enemy of this nation has ever done a better job of degrading or belittling this country. That American was one of this nation's richest and most powerful men!
It was a very special performance by a pillar of the American community, who influences things in his community. It was a very special performance because in that living room during his performance - in which he said things had reached the point where there seemed to be 'no way left to get those traitors out of our government except by shooting them out' during that performance, there were four teenagers in that room to be influenced. His views were shared on November 22, 1963.
Interestingly, the man accused of that crime claimed to be a Marxist, a communist. But my host assured me - when I objected to his remarks - that he believed as he did because he was anti-communist!
What happened in that home in Dallas, of one of America's richest and most powerful men, smashed that goal of America as a united country for the four teenagers in on that conversation that night.
— Dr. Albert E. Burke after attending a meeting at the home of Haroldson L. Hunt
(per John Simkin, Spartacus Educational)

Haroldson L. Hunt | Spartacus Educational
Haroldson Lafayette (H.L.) Hunt Jr. | Wikipedia

JFK Assassination

See — JFK Assassination

See example below of what Dr. Burke called a 'dangerous new parlor game of "creeping socialism"' that began in ernest in the early 1960s and has escalated into the 3rd Millenium —

Welcome Mr. Kennedy To Dallas...
Wanted For Treason
JFK & John Birch Society
Dallas Hate-JFK Dealy Ad

The entire page 14 of the Dallas Morning News, November 22nd, 1963 [the same day JFK was assassinated], was devoted to an advertisement, ominously bordered in black like an announcement of mourning. ...
Under the sardonic heading, "WELCOME MR KENNEDY TO DALLAS," an organization styling itself as "The American Fact-Finding Committee" — a local coordinator of the John Birch Society and Nelson Bunker Hunt, the son of H. L. Hunt, it later developed, were the committee's most prominent members — asked the President twelve rhetorical questions. He was accused of responsiblity for the imprisonment, starvation, and persecution of 'thousands of Cubans.' The ad declared that he was selling food to the Communist party, and asked, among other things, 'Why have you ordered or permitted your brother Bobby, the Attorney General, to go soft on Communists, fellow-travelers, and ultra-leftists in America, while permitting him to persecute loyal Americans who criticize you, your administration, and your leadership?'..."'Mr Kennedy', the ad concluded, 'we DEMAND answers to these questions, and we want them NOW.'
It was another 'Wanted for Treason' broadside. But there were two differences. This denunciation was reaching a vast audience through the pages of a respected newspaper [the Dallas Morning News]. And it was appearing within hours of the President's arrival. ...
In 1963 the Dallas Morning News was published by a man named Ted Dealey [as in Dealey Plaza]. When criticized for it later, Dealey said that before agreeing to print the JBS ad, he'd read it meticulously and approved it, arguing that it 'represented what the Dallas Morning News have been saying editorially'.
— William Manchester, Death of a President 1967 | Google Books

Why Do They Hate Us So Much? —
When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Dallas was my hometown. For twenty years my neighbors and I have suffered the world’s blame. Now it is time to lay our burden down.
While everyone was religious, some were superreligious, and they thought of themselves as a spiritual vanguard. They were contemptuous of the rest of us—we might as well have been agents of the Devil. It was the same with politics. The political scale in Dallas began with Eisenhower conservatism and ran well past fascism to a kind of conservative nihilism. Earle Cabell was a far-right Democrat, present at the founding though not a member of the Dallas chapter of the John Birch Society, and yet he was routinely described by the farther right as “the socialist mayor of Dallas.” ...
Across the country, but particularly in this new world, there was a certain adolescent bitterness, a suspicious feeling of betrayal, a willingness to find conspiracy lurking in every corner. “The mood,” as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., described it, “was one of the longing for a dreamworld of no communism, no overseas entanglements, no United Nations, no federal government, no labor unions, no Negroes or foreigners—a world in which Chief Justice Warren would be impeached, Cuba invaded, the graduated income tax repealed, the fluoridation of drinking water stopped and the import of Polish hams forbidden.”
No, it was not just Dallas, but my hometown was already gaining the reputation of being the capital of this new world. ...
What was more surprising was that the sign carriers and catcallers were for the most part well-groomed women from some of the finest homes in the city, and yet as soon as the Johnsons waded into Commerce Street the women in red, white, and blue began to curse them and to spit. (Later, some members of the “Mink Coat Mob,” as they came to be known, claimed that they were not spitting, exactly—they were frothing.)
Why? What accounted for the hostility (or to use her word, indignation) of the fashionable and affluent Dallas woman? In part she was imply a prisoner of her age: a women of unfocused ambition, intensely competitive but unemployed (the working wife was still a signal of economic desperation), lonely at home and given to causes. She may have been financially secure, but she was deeply troubled by some unnamed fear that her castle was built of sand and the coming tide would wash away her American dreams. She named the tide International Communism, or Creeping Socialism. When Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev boasted to the West, “We will bury you,” the conservative Dallas woman believed him. Earlier that autumn Khrushchev had come to the United Nations and pounded on the table with his shoe—a gesture of such swaggering boorishness that it justified every qualm the Dallas woman felt about Russia, the United Nations, and American foreign policy. She worried about the missile gap and the spread of communism to Cuba. Moreover, people in her own country were talking enthusiastically about social change—Kennedy was already speaking of the “the revolutionary sixties”—and the Dallas woman knew those changes would come at her expense. She worried about the erosion of liberty caused by recent Supreme Court decisions (often delivered by Chief Justice Earl Warren, who was the creeping socialist personified). The court was taking rights away from the Dallas woman and awarding them to pornographers, criminals, atheists, communists, and Negroes. The Dallas woman felt herself to be under attack at home and abroad. ...
Although Nixon carried Dallas County by a landslide, Texas went for the Kennedy-Johnson. (Johnson also beat Tower in the senatorial race, although Tower would win the subsequent special election.) It was the closest presidential election in the nation’s history, and it was decided that day in the lobby of the Adolphus Hotel. People said afterward that they were not voting for Kennedy so much as they were voting against Dallas.
Against us. For the first time people in the city learned about guilt by association. Until then Dallas had had very little national identity, but we found ourselves now with a new municipal image: a city of the angry nouveau riche, smug, doctrinaire, belligerent, a city with a taste for political violence. Many Dallasites were shocked to see our city represented that way, but it had little effect on the way we thought of ourselves. ...
There was, in fact, a chip of defiance on the city’s shoulder, encouraged by the Dallas Morning News. The News is the oldest business institution in the state, having been founded in 1842 when Texas was still a republic and Dallas little more than a heady presumption. Under George B. Dealey the News had been a progressive newspaper, leading the scourge that drove the Ku Klux Klan out of Texas. The name “Dealey” would become famous because of the queer, fan-shaped park known as Dealey Plaza, directly across the street from the Texas School Book Depository, where a bronze statue of G.B. Dealey stares at the now magnificent skyline of downtown Dallas. Many citizens believe it is perfectly appropriate that Dealey’s name should be irrevocably tied to the assassination, even though it is his son they blame. ...
E.M. "Ted" Dealey, the son, succeeded his father as publisher of the [Dallas Morning] News, and in his hands it became the most strident, red-baiting daily paper in the country, excepting only occasionally William Leob's Union-Leader, in Manchester, New Hampshire. Like many intensely conservative people, he found his paragon in the movies and politics of John Wayne. As a matter of fact, reading the News each morning was like watching a brawl in a saloon, in which the newspaper's editorials flattened the "socialists" (read: Democrats), the "perverts and subversives" (liberal Democrats), the "Judicial Kremlin" (the U.S. Supreme Court), and virtually every representative of the federal government whose views differed from those of Ted Dealey. Immediately after the election the News’s principal object of contempt became President John F Kennedy, who the paper suggested was a crook, a communist sympathizer, a thief, and "fifty times a fool".
Ted Dealey went to the White House in the fall of 1961 with a group of Texas publishers to meet the man he had maligned so frequently in his newspaper. He used the occasion to attack Kennedy in person. "We can annihilate Russia and should make that clear to the Soviet government", he advised the president, to the discomfort of his colleagues in the room. He accused Kennedy and his administration of being weak sisters (a favorite Dealey phrase). "We need a man on horseback to lead this nation", he concluded "and many people in Texas and the Southwest think that you are riding Caroline's tricycle". ...
[Lyndon Johnson, a fellow Texan of Dealey's, was curiously "a man on horseback".]
Kennedy was still thinking of his encounter with Dealey when he spoke later that year of people who “call for ‘a man on horseback’ because they do not trust the people. They find treason in our churches, in our highest court, in our treatment of water. They equate the Democratic Party with the welfare state, the welfare state with socialism, socialism with communism.” With his prescient political eye Kennedy saw that the new world was being created, and it stood opposed to everything he represented: East Coast liberalism, mainstream Democratic party politics, Ivy League learning, the customary restraints of educated society. Although Kennedy was popularly understood as a man of his time, a thoroughly modern president, in many ways he was the last of the traditionalists. He called his administration the New Frontier, but his successors—Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan—would show that the real frontier in American politics lay for away in the new world.
During his presidency the atmosphere in Dallas approached hysteria. “The historical conservatism of the city,” wrote Dallas’ most prominent merchant, Stanley Marcus, “had been fanned to a raging fire by the combination of a number of elements: the far right daily radio ‘Facts Forum’ program by Dan Smoot sponsored by the ultraconservative wealthiest man in town, H. L. Hunt; the John Birch Society; the oil industry’s hysterical concern for the preservation of what they considered a biblical guarantee of their depletion allowance; the ‘National Indignation League’ founded by a local garageman, Frank McGeehee, in protest of the air force’s training of some Yugoslavian pilots at a nearby air base; the consistently one-sided attacks on the administration by the Dallas Morning News and the semi-acquiescent editorial policy of the Times Herald, which had previously been a middle-of-the-road, fair newspaper. For the lack of courageous firemen in the business and intellectual segments of the community, the fire raged on.” ...
Dallas was gaining notice. The leader of the American Nazi party, George Lincoln Rockwell, opined that Dallas had “the most patriotic, pro-American people of any city in the country.” The compliment may have embarrassed a few, considering its source, but we believed that about ourselves. To the radical conservatives, Dallas had become a kind of shrine, a Camelot of the right. ...
The mob immediately closed him in [Adlai Stevenson]. The hysterical woman, who was the wife of an insurance executive, brought her placard down on Stevenson’s head. A college student spat upon him. When the policeman finally rescued him, Stevenson wiped the spit off his face with a handkerchief and asked aloud, “Are these human beings or are these animals?” ...
[Then as now, no matter how much things change, they still remain the same. Read on; it only gets "better".]

NOTE: 
From mid to late 2000s, the position of 'conservative' editorialist for the Dallas Morning News was a major rung in the career ladder climb of talking head, political pundit and self-appointed 'culture warrior' Raymond Oliver Dreher Jr. (aka 'Rod'), ardent player of the parlor game of "creeping socialism" (already several or more decades old when 'Rod' began playing) that was newly popularized in the early '60s. 
Dreher is the antithesis of the scholarly informed and well reasoned Dr. Alfred E. Burke and emblematic of the condition of USA today, where someone with nothing more than an undergraduate degree in journalism, an egghead, years of accumulated reading high mileage, an above average vocabulary, and the right connections can become a political "influencer" who's put on a pedastal as if he actually knows something about that which he mouths.

See —
Conservatism
The John Birch Society Sees A Renaissance In North Texas
The Birchers & the Trumpers

Quotes

American after American is meeting dedicated Marxists and is not able to answer their questions. We do not understand our own American history. ...
You cannot defeat communism by thinking like a Communist. I am concerned about Americans who do not know enough about their own way of life to have to adopt Communist methods.
— 'The Sputtering Fuses From Berlin To Havana' speech by Albert Burke, September 1961 Statler Hilton Hotel, Dallas
(per James Richards, Australia)

You certainly don't have to love thy neighbor, but you'd better pick a better reason not to than the color of his skin. ...
For those who shout about communism, the loudest is usually the least knowledgeable. Empty barrels make the most noise and it doesn't take a loud noise to be patriotic and have concern and dedication. You can go about it in a quiet manner.
— 'American Ideals and World Realities' speech by Albert Burke, mid 1963 Dallas Council on World Affairs
(per James Richards, Australia)

The United States' vision of foreign policy is just blank checks being written by blank minds.
(per Helen Burke, daughter of Albert Burke)

Peace symbols don't make peace, it takes hard work.
— The Denver Post 1972 | Getty Images

TV Productions

Dr. Albert E. Burke brings to the Connecticut and Massachusetts television audience the little-known facts behind the well-known headlines. Through the eyes and ears of this scholar, the true significance of developments around the world is presented in a weekly analysis which, the station says, has evoked tremendous public response.
— Peabody Digest 1958

TV Programs 1951 to 1964 —
   This is Your World | WNHC (NBC) New Haven CN 1951
   Geography for Decision | American Institute of Resource Economics 1957 (NBC & ETRC)
   Survival | 1958
   A Way of Thinking | 1960
   (The Cutting Edge?)
   (Challenge?)
   Probe | (NBC) 1960-1964 
     first to be broadcast nationally on 40 stations throughout the US

Albert Schweitzer Symposium Part 1 1947 | YouTube
Albert Schweitzer Symposium Part 2 1958 | YouTube

Survival: The Story of Man, Resources, and Civilization —
In Rich Veins...A New World Dec 26 1957 | YouTube

The American Stranger Dec 1958 — entry to 1958 Peabody Awards, News category

Cuba: The Battle of America 1960

Challenge transcripts — aired Wed nights
Dynamics of Democracy Part I Apr 18 1962
Dynamics of Democracy Part II Apr 25 1962
Dynamics of Democracy Part III May 2 1962
Dynamics of Democracy Part IV May 16 1962
 
Probe transcripts —
The Monster Slayer Part I 1962
The Monster Slayer Part II 1962
The Monster Slayer Part III 1962
The Monster Slayer Part IV 1962
Stranger in the Ray 1962
The Murderous One Episode 13 (Dec 3 1963?)
  Sponsored by Glendale Federal Savings, Glendale CA
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Glendale Federal news release entitles program A Way of Thinking instead of Probe, refers to Dr. Burke as "noted educator and world affairs commentator" who "covers vital global and domestic issues using an unusual lecture technique", and reports that the show debuted (in LA) Tuesday nights at 8pm weekly for a half hour on KCOP Channel 13 (founded 1953) and is enscribed in the Congressional Record as an "outstanding TV series" praised by the New York Times and covered in a Look Magazine 3 page article.