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: Blackout in the Northeast, Ian Smith's Rhodesia seeks independence from Britain, comments by Smith, Dean Rusk, and Harold Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower suffers a second heart attack, Senator Everett Dirksen comments on draft card burners, a man sets himself afire in front of the UN building in an anti-war protest, Dirksen comments on the future of the war in Vietnam,
General Wallace Greene of US Marine Corp and vice president Humphrey comment on the war.
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.
