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.                                       

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                         

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: Winston Churchill has been buried, comments by Dwight Eisenhower, a bloodless coup in South Vietnam by General Khanh, comment by General Khanh, Richard Nixon suggests air-sea power to cut off Viet Cong supplies.  

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.                                                                                                                

South Vietnamese General Khanh is overthrown by General Warner Farr. John Scali comments.                       

General Nguyen Khanh ousted in a coup as South Vietnamese leader, succeeded by Duong Van Minh. racial violence in Merceria, Alabama, 400 negroes defy troopers, reporters are beaten.                    

160 US warplanes fly over North Vietnam today, biggest raid on North Vietnam to date, bomb two bases in North Vietnam. General Nguyen Khanh, ousted as South Vietnamese Prime Minister.