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 news: An airliner crashes in Florida, 42 passengers are killed, the Coast Guard searches for a tanker"Marine Sulpher Queen" in the Caribbean, A Venezuelan freighter is hijacked by Fidel Castro terrorists, Secretary Of State Dean Rusk talks about international communism and the Soviet-Red Chinese rift, French President De Gaulle threatens Western alliance, comments by Senator Wayne Morse, William Fulbright, President Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller, Harold Macmillan, the government in economic crisis, Labor Party's Harold Wilson comments on British Labor Party policy, Iraq's Prime Minister Karim Qasim is overthrown and executed, President Kennedy on proposed tax-cut, New York Governor Rockefeller criticizes President Kennedy's policies, a hiking craze in Washington, fifty-mile hikes are even attempted by Pierre Salinger.
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.