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: Election results bring big GOP victory in the House and Senate, Reagan, Romney, Rockefeller, Percy, Hatfield, Brooke, Agnew, Maddox all win, Lurleen Wallace wins in Alabama, Everett Dirksen looks at presidential hopefuls for 1968, a major battle in South Vietnam, battlefront report, the US puts a spacecraft around the moon, Gemini 12 fired into orbit. 

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.                                                                                                                                          

The King flies to Rome as the Greek coup fails, high casualties in the Vietnam war, Senator Chuck Percy warns South Vietnam to take more responsibility in the war or will lose it, the heart transplant patient is doing OK.            

Senator Charles Percy's comments on the information given to the US people about success in the war calls it misleading information, Richard Nixon says it's not wise to debate Governor George Romney.            

This year is Illinois 150th year of statehood. This nostalgic sesquicentennial tribute presents some of the Prairie State's leading citizens, as well as show-business personalities who have been associated with the state.
Among the stars are Jack Benny, Dave Garroway, Bob Hope, Mahalia Jackson, Mercedes McCambridge, Burr Tillstrom (with puppets Kukla and Ollie) and the original Benny Goodman Trio (Goodman, Gene Krupa and Teddy Wilson). The host is Steve Allen, who composed the program's score. 
Also appearing are Senator Everett Dirksen (who offers a dramatic recitation) and Charles Percy, former Senator Paul Douglas, Gov Otto Kerner, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, writer Mark Van Doren, architect R.Buckminster Fuller, balladeer Win Stracke, writer-broadcaster Studs Terkel, former FCC head Newton Minow and Adlai Stevenson III. Heard via recordings: the late Adlai Stevenson and poet Carl Sandburg. 
Filmed almost entirely on location, the program covers Illinois from end to end, visiting the pulse points of the present and historic sites sacred to its heritage,                                              

First radio and television news accounts (different stations) from approximately 9:45pm EST to 10:18pm EST related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, in Memphis, Tennessee.

These reports include first radio reports...information including an account by Rev. Jesse Jackson that shots were fired from a building across the street  just prior to Dr. King and his party were getting ready to have dinner. 

Tom Jarriel reports to ABC's Bob Young...reaction of the assassination which took place around 7:10pm...rioting in Tennessee...death of King around 8pm...President Johnson's response to the public...VP Hubert  Humphrey comments, Steve Young reports from Carnegie Hall...Duke Ellington turns concert into a memorial, Ed Bradley Man on the Street reactions in Harlem  to the assassination,  comments from Dr. Sterling Brown, Senator Charles Percy comments...Don Hickman reports from Memphis Tennessee.

NOTE: All of the above air checks audio taped  were recorded off the air (television and radio) in real time, switching from  one station to another...radio to TV to radio to TV, back and forth from approximately 9:45pm EST to !0:18pm EST. 
                                                                 

Live coverage of President Richard M. Nixon's trip to South Viet Nam. On this unscheduled five and one half-hour visit, Nixon meets with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu to discuss United States troop withdrawals.