Jon Voight buys Thanksgiving turkeys for stranger, helps feed at-risk youth

Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight was waiting in the checkout line at a Kentucky Wal-Mart when he noticed a stranger purchasing six Thanksgiving turkeys.

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The stranger, Sydney Gholston, who works at Louisville's Home of the Innocents, a non-profit focused on helping kids in crisis, told ABC News about the encounter.

"The man behind me said, 'You must have a big family. That's an awful lot of turkeys,'" Gholston told ABC.

Gholston explained that the turkeys were meant for a Thanksgiving celebration for at-risk children at the Home of the Innocents, and told Voight that he looked "a lot like Angelina Jolie's dad."

After joking with Gholston for a bit, Voight offered to buy all of the turkeys.

Home of the Innocents provides care to medically-fragile children and children who are victims of abuse, abandonment and neglect.

Gholston told ABC News the turkeys will feed about 70 children during the their Thanksgiving celebration on Thursday.

According to the organization, Voight was in Kentucky to film a movie.

The group shared the act of kindness on their Facebook page:

Our employee Sydney Gholston went to purchase Thanksgiving turkeys for our kids today. What a treat when she ran into...

Posted by Home of the Innocents on Friday, November 18, 2016

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