President Kennedy comments on Columbus, Governor Nelson Rockefeller meets Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield in Oregon.  

Mike Wallace reports.            

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.                                                                                                                                          

May 18, 1967- August 31, 1967,  June 2, 1969-August 15, 1969

The 1967 edition of SUMMER FOCUS presented reports on a variety of subjects both current and historical in nature. A number of the programs were rebroadcasts of previously aired ABC documentaries drawn in part from THE SAGA OF WESTERN MAN. 
In 1969, SUMMER FOCUS returned as the title of an irregularly offered group of five reports on topical issues, hosted by Frank Reynolds.     

Peter Jennings, Anchors this examination of political protest, in America. Historian John Blum traces the origin of political protest, and analyzes the current unrest over antiwar demonstrations. 
We revisit recent peace demonstrations in major cities, and pro and con reactions from (among others) civil-rights leader Martin Luther King; Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam; Sen. Mark Hatfield (R. Oregon); and GIs in Vietnam. 
                                

A five-hour local telethon to raise funds for world hunger. 
Dr. Lester Brown, president of Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C. and noted authority on the world food crisis, is among the respected scholars who share some informative and surprising facts about the causes and cures of world hunger.

A landmark television experience-a sweeping five-hour presentation that will show you how more than two billion of the world's people are living every day with the heartbreak and despair of constant hunger. 

Thirty filmed reports from three continents will take you beyond statistics and headlines to life-and-death experiences of real people living with the personal agony of hunger.

America's top entertainers will join with leaders of our government to share their concern.

Respected educators will dispel the myths about the causes and the cures for a hungry world.

Ordinary people from all over the USA will tell how they are helping to bring life and hope into the heartbreak and despair of a hungry, hurting world. They will share what it means to them and their families.

This is the only time this remarkable television program will ever be shown.