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: Anti-war draft protestors, Senator Stennis chides the protestors, high casualties in Vietnam, a Governor's conference aboard the US liner USS Independence, politics discussed among other topics, comments by Reagan and Rockefeller, Russian spacecraft lands on the surface of Venus, sends signals back to earth, a Federal jury convicts seven white men of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi, former President Eisenhower enters the hospital, a 91-year-old veteran of the Spanish American war comments on supporting the war in Vietnam.
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.