Charles Cragg Hines (19 June 1945 - 16 December 2023)[citation needed] was born in Dallas, Texas, was employed by the Houston Chronicle, as a correspondent, bureau chief and columnist, for more than three decades.
[5] Hines reported from the Berlin Wall in 1987, and covered each summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, through three administrations.
[7][8][9] Hines was awarded a congressional fellowship, by the American Political Science Association, for the 1970-71 academic school year.
[11] Hines was a news reporter, bureau manager and statehouse correspondent for United Press International, in Dallas, and later in Little Rock.
He was in Saudi Arabia at the start of the Persian Gulf War, and wrote the main story in the Chronicle’s special edition, covering the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.