Three civil rights workers (two whites and one negro) disappear mysteriously on a Mississippi road after arrest on speeding charges, Nelson Benton reports from Mississippi, "swim-in" on a Florida beach sets off a racial flurry, Henry Cabot Lodge resigns as Ambassador to Saigon and is replaced by General Maxwell Taylor-comments on this event by President Johnson, Senator Wayne Morse, Senator Barry Goldwater, and defense secretary Robert McNamara, there are implications that the US will increase their war-role in South Vietnam. 

Host: Walter Cronkite. Report from Nelson Benton.                         

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.

News topics of the day: Terror in the Congo as rebels go on a rampage and massacre whites, review of US policy in South Vietnam, the possibility of escalating the war is discussed, comment by General Maxwell Taylor. 



Host: Fred Foy.                                                                                           

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.

News topics of the day: The FBI arrests suspects in three civil rights murders last year in Mississippi, Mariner 4 spacecraft to Mars and Pluto probe, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson to see President Johnson, Ambassador Maxwell Taylor outlines framework on future conduct of South Vietnam, Medal Of Honor awarded to US officer by President Johnson.  



Host: Fred Foy.                                                                                           

Satire about General Maxwell Taylor on Vietnam and Chad Mitchell, (a satire on the draft).                         

South Vietnamese General Khanh has problems with Buddhists and feuds with General Maxwell Taylor, Winston Churchill pre-funeral plans, comments by the Duke of Windsor, Dow Jones breaks the 900 mark, comments on Churchill death by Dwight Eisenhower.


Harry Reasoner subs for Walter Cronkite                         

February 1, 1965 - December 29, 1967

Twenty six year old Peter Jennings begins anchoring the ABC Evening News, broadcast in black and white.

Selina crisis; negroes arrested during voter registration drive, Martin Luther King is arrested, 700 arrested in jail protest, fighting in Laos, forty killed in South Vietnam, McGeorge Bundy to confer with Maxwell Taylor, LBJ may visit, Beirut, a report from Marina.  

NOTE: It was during Peter Jennings tenure that ABC's evening newscast expanded to thirty minutes on January 9, 1967, at which time the broadcast also reverted to color. Correspondent Howard K. Smith would appear daily contributing news analysis.

ABC was the third network to lengthen its early evening newscast. 
nearly three and half years after both CBS and NBC had expanded their evening news programs to a half - hour.

                      

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. 

A review of the week's top news stories: Anti-US student riots in Moscow against the US, raids in North Vietnam Radio Peking comment by General Maxwell Taylor, the jungle war is going badly, comments by Peter McCloskey, Nevada Senator Howard Walter Cannon and Senator Wayne Morse, comments by Strom Thurmond, Martin Luther King, Dean Rusk, Everett Dirksen, and Gerald Ford, all on US involvement in Vietnam. Martin Luther King on civil and voting rights will march in Alabama, 

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.                                                                                                                

Groups protest US aggression in Vietnam, commentary on failures of General Maxwell Taylor in Vietnam.          

Commentary on the failure of US policy in Vietnam, an attack on General Maxwell Taylor.             

Vietnam bomb blast at the American Embassy, the reaction of US involvement in the war, comments by President Johnson, Senator Morse, embassy attack reaction by other Senators, General Maxwell Taylor in Washington for the high-level conference, Martin Luther King boycott of Alabama goods, negro voting rights bill, comments by Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon, KKK unrest by US possible.    

Harry Reasoner reports.                      

President Johnson says Vietnam war will get worse before it gets better, Robert Kennedy criticizes US policy in Vietnam, General Maxwell Taylor resigns as ambassador, replaced by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jack Dempsey comments on the state of today's boxing, Walter Cronkite reports from Zone-"D" in South Vietnam, a report from the Da Nang Air Force base.                          

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. 

A review of the week's top news stories: President Johnson signs legislation allowing negroes to vote, comment by Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, James Farmer, and Averill Harriman just back from Moscow, no interest in stopping the Vietnam war, Maxwell Taylor gives a report from South Vietnam, Earle Wheeler says war will continue, Premier Ky of South Vietnam wants more US troops, comments by US troops on Viet Cong, UFO sightings, 20th anniversary of Hiroshima A-bombing, Dean Rusk says US will not be driven out of Vietnam.

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.                                                                                                                                          

November 20, 1947-September 5, 1965 (primetime NBC); September 19, 1965-present (non-primetime NBC). Public affairs program which is the longest running series on network television.




Guest is General Maxwell Taylor who discusses problems and issues on the war in Vietnam.

The moderator is Ned Brooks. 

                                                                                                

General Maxwell Taylor testifies on Vietnam before Senator William Fulbright's Senate committee.            

"Vietnam Hindsight" Part 1: How It Began

First of a two-part examination of US involvement in Vietnam a decade ago. Includes appearances by Roswell Gilpatric, former secretary of defense George Ball, General Maxwell Taylor, former military adviser John Kenneth Galbraith, war correspondent David Halberstam, and former special assistant to the President Arthur Schlesinger. Others appearing are General Paul Harkins, Lt. Col. John Vann, former military adviser Rufus Phillips, Michael Forrestal, Frederick Nolting, former ambassador to South Vietnam, 
Roger Hilsman, former assistant  secretary of state, and Mme.Nhu, sister-in-law of Ngo Dinh Diem. Also clips of President John F. Kennedy and former defense secretary Robert McNamara.