A interesting story, N.J parents and mine were really good friends. In fact my father died of cancer and on his last day, N.J or Newt as i Know him.
I am writing this listening the the drum beat of brazil.
So if i sound like I am in a trace
its because their is a capaiera class right next to me. Most often i cant stand the noise when other karate classes are bouncing off my walls
But the drums of brazil always lure me, make me feral and tribal
ok where was I
N.J is from Elizabeth New Jersey my home town, his parents and mine were life long best friends.
N.J's father remained a life long friend of my father. My father was his political mentor. And on the day my father died, N.J father actually sat with my father until he passed along with four of my father other best friends. MY father had class and even in passing he controlled his surroundings.
My mother and NJ mother were great friends, and their was many a day when my mother would baby sit him.
I used to hold N.J 's brother when he was a child. .
N.J and my mother became really close, My mother became the librarian at Elizabeth High school. And i remembered almost being jealous of the time that N.J used to spend with my mother. He loved my mother to death. My sister when she was in high school used to baby sit both brothers and I want to thank N.J father for being such a great friend to my father
anyway just another story......
here is N.J's bio you go boy
Meet The Team
N.J. Burkett
N.J. Burkett joined the Eyewitness News team in 1989. His distinctive storytelling, production skills and award-winning international reporting have added a unique dimension to WABC-TV's coverage of metropolitan New York.
In September 2001, after the two airliners struck the World Trade Center, N.J. and WABC-TV photographer Marty Glembotzky narrowly escaped the subsequent collapse of the South Tower. Their work was later seen on television news broadcasts across the nation and around the world.
He spent nearly three months covering the war in Iraq, and the military build-up that preceded it. He reported from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, airstrips and desert base camps in Kuwait, and war-ravaged cities in Iraq.
In recent years, N.J. has reported from several Middle Eastern capitals. He has covered the last two Israeli elections, as well as the Palestinian popular uprising, known as the Intifada.
In the metropolitan area, he has reported on everything from crime, and state and local politics, to commercial plane crashes, hurricanes, blizzards, wildfires and Nor'easters on Long Island.
When a growing number of homeless New Yorkers complained that the city's municipal shelters were unsafe, N.J. went undercover for several weeks in the winter of 2002, disguised as a homeless man. He, and an undercover photographer, slept in New York's most notorious men's shelter.
N.J.'s work has been honored with several of the most prestigious awards in American television news, including the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association.
He shared the George Foster Peabody Award with his colleagues at ABC News for his reporting on the September 11th attacks. In March 2003, N.J. was awarded the Emmy for Outstanding On-Camera Achievement from the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, his third Emmy.
His full name is Newton Jones Burkett, and he grew-up in New Jersey. Before joining Eyewitness News, N.J. was a correspondent for WFSB-TV, the CBS station in Hartford, CT. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in International Affairs, both from Columbia University.
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