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, and also Gilbert Hodges.
A review of the week's top news stories: The US sends troops to the Dominican Republic to stop communist seizure of the country, U Thant from the United Nations, Wally Bruner reporting from Santo Domingo with troops engaged in combat, Nikolai Federenko, and Adlai Stevenson in a heated exchange in the UN, air war continues in Vietnam, President Johnson asks Congress for more money for Vietnam involvement which is backed by Robert McNamara, the end of the European war, comments by President Johnson and Dwight Eisenhower, Leroy Wilkens KKK trial for the murder of Viola Liuzzo, the case ends in a mistrial by an all-white jury, Core's James Farmer in a civil rights talk.
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.