Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy.
Year end review.
Narrator: Fred Foy.
NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award-winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25-minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.
Guy Lombardo welcomes in the year 1964. Robert Trout reports live from Times Square.
Guy Lombardo orchestra plays a Richard Rodgers song "Fair is Fair."
Duplicate of #7179.
The top news stories of 1963: The Kennedy assassination, civil rights, the nuclear test ban treaty, scandals such as Bobby Baker, Billy Sol Estes, the Joseph Valachi testimony, problems in France and England, (The John Profumo affair), Sino-Soviet rift, the Ecumenical Council, Pope Paul, Pope John died, the crisis in the Congo, a coup in South Vietnam against the Diem Government, the US and Russian space flights, US submarine "Thresher" sinks with all hands aboard, Skopje, Yugoslavia earthquake.
Bill Scott reports.
President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers his first State Of The Union address before Congress. He talks about Taxes and "the war on poverty."
Host: Walter Cronkite.
A report on poverty in the US, military economics, President Johnson says he will put a man on the moon by 1970, comments by Senator Everett Dirksen and Senator Hubert Humphrey. Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's son campaigns for him for the 1964 presidential campaign
Host: Walter Cronkite.
Comments on the problem of presidential succession by Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Harry Truman, Carl Sandburg, Alben W. Barkley, President Kennedy, Senator, Kenneth Keating, Speaker Of The House John McCormack.
Discussion: Is it wise to land a man on the moon? A debate between Dr. Robert Jastrow and Dr. Charles Bachman.
"Hizzoner The Mayor" of New York City has a tough job. This show illustrates the point by documenting the careers of two colorful
New York mayors- James J. Walker and Fiorello LaGuardia. Walker was in office from 1925 to 1932, LaGuardia from 1934 to 1945.
Host: Harry Golden.
Topics: Three dead in Massachusetts chemical plant explosion, a new casualty in Panama disorder, USSR captures "Ivan The Ripper,"
Fidel Castro to meet with Nikita Khrushchev, Western Conference behind Johnny Unitas and Jim Taylor, defeat the Eastern Conference 31-17 to win the 1963 Pro Bowl game. Snowing in New York City with temperature at 19 degrees and gale force winds, expected to reach a low of 4 degrees.
Bill Schumacher reporting.
Topics: Panama expels United States diplomats, Khrushchev supports Panama, the fighting is fierce in South Vietnam, up to date, 99 United States soldiers have been killed in South Vietnam.
Panama expels US diplomats, the fighting is fierce in South Vietnam, 99 soldiers have been killed so far, Attorney General Robert Kennedy to visit Indonesian President Sukarno about the war in Malaysia, ex-astronaut John Glenn to enter the Senate race,
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller campaigns in New Hampshire.
Panama wants a new treaty on the Panama Canal, The Jimmy Hoffa trial is underway, comment by Hoffa, Jack Ruby hearings in Dallas, Texas, comment by Melvin Belli, Alabama Governor George Wallace to run in preferential presidential primaries in the West, US helicopters fight in South Vietnam, 175 US combat deaths, Harold Stassen runs for president for the fourth time.
News coverage from CBS and NBC News.
Commentary on US foreign policy, believes the US is coming to a "dead-end-street" and operating in a "dream world" in such areas as Cuba, and South Vietnam.
Marina Oswald (widow of Lee Harvey Oswald) gives an interview, Dela Beckwith goes on trial for the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, Margaret Chase Smith to run for president, guerilla activity in the Congo-priests killed, France recognizes Red China.
Host: Walter Cronkite.
Coup in South Vietnam, the Russians shoot down US planes in East Germany, Nixon and Rockefeller at fundraising dinner, the US launches satellite boosted by Saturn 1 rocket, which will eventually put a man on the moon, the Panama peace talks hit a snag.
Host: Walter Cronkite.
More on South Vietnam coup, General Nguyen Khanh takes over and plans to press the war, the US is dismayed the war is going so poorly in Vietnam, Ranger rocket will take photos of the moon's surface, actor Alan Ladd dies.
Host: Mike Wallace.
Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy.
Topics: Charles De Gaulle recognizes Red China, comments by Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, and Karl Mundt, South Vietnam coup with a comment by President Johnson, problems in Cyprus, Saturn rocket sends satellite into orbit, Ranger rocket hits the moon but its TV fails, politics: comments from Scranton, Nixon, Goldwater, Rockefeller, Eisenhower, and Romney, Lone Ranger memorabilia. The final Lone Ranger radio show after 21 years on ABC radio.
Narrator: Fred Foy.
NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25 minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.
Castro shuts off the water supply to Guantanamo Bay, the Vietcong score successes in Vietnam, Adam Clayton Powell speaks in Cambridge, Maryland during a crisis, the Beatles arrive in New York City, comments by teenagers and the Beatles, Howard Cosell on coming Clay-Liston fight, Clay might be worried, interview with race car driver Sterling Moss.
Host: Walter Cronkite.
President Johnson, British Prime Minister Home meet in Washington, they discuss British trade with communist countries, the Jimmy Hoffa trial continues, Jack Ruby pre-trial in Dallas, Bill Stern comments on the Winter Olympics in Austria, the US did poorly and subject to "Gestapo" tactics by Austrian police, comments on the current music scene, an interview with songwriter Harold Arlen, discussion of the Beatles influence on current music, interviews with the Beatles, John Lennon, and Morton Gould.
President Lyndon Johnson sixth news conference.
NBC NEWS REPORT from the State Department in Washington D.C. of President Lyndon Baines Johnson first press conference on this his 100th day in office...first press conference to be covered by Radio and Television, LIVE.
At the conclusion of the Presidents address we hear a wrap-up three minute summary by 1010 WINS News Room Anchor, Brad Phillips.
A presentation of 1010 WINS radio in New York City.
Jack Ruby trial in furor, New York City Mayor Robert Wagner's wife dies, General Douglas MacArthur enters the hospital.
Eric Sevareid comments on the New Hampshire primary,
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara off to Vietnam-the war is not going well there, the Vietcong increase pressure, the possibility of escalating war into the north, action report from Vietnam, US combat deaths at 115 so far, battle in Cyprus, Jack Ruby trial in Dallas-witness talks of the shooting of Oswald, General Douglas MacArthur has his gall bladder removed, Prince Constantine takes over the Greek throne following his father's death.
The Jack Ruby trial continues, comments from CBS newsman Eric Sevareid, Dean Rusk comments on "neutralization" for South Vietnam, a battle report from Vietnam.
Within a News Broadcast, an interview with Malcolm X.
NEWS COMMENTATOR:
"Two Days ago, Malcolm X, right hand man to Black Muslim chieftain Elijah Muhammad, resigned from that black supremacist sect.
Today, Malcolm X called a news conference and he told a jammed house that he was forming his own Muslim Mosque in New York City."
SECOND NEWS COMMENTATOR:
"Much of what Malcolm X said he said before while still cure apparent to Elijah Muhammad. He added a few new touches making it clear we will be hearing a great deal from this tall literate man who believes that the white race is doomed. For example, Malcolm X urged Negroes to form gun clubs."
We hear Malcolm X, in a sit down interview, discuss his policy and philosophical views.
Questions by interviewer answered by Malcolm X:
- Why is it necessary to own guns for self defense?
-The possibility of riots and civil war developing in America.
-The proposition of advocating or not advocating violence.
-Why working with Civil Rights groups will eliminate suffering in the US by Negroes.
-Opinion related to old line civil rights leaders.
-Goals of his current political activities.
-Why he left Elijah Muhammad.
Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to eight years in prison-attacks the FBI, court, and Bobby Kennedy, the Jack Ruby trial continues, Harry Reasoner comments on the New Hampshire lottery, mod fashions in England.
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