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: The Surveyor 1 lands on the moon, the Gemini 0 is launched with astronauts-Stafford and Cernan, UN on Viet proposals, comments from Goldberg and Rusk, nine Buddhists burn themselves to death, comment from President Johnson, 87 are killed in Vietnam, the US increases the draft quota, LBJ in a Memorial Day comment, pledge on Vietnam, Hubert Humphrey comments, Johnson and Humphrey comment on civil rights, also, comments from Robert Kennedy, Justice Thurgood Marshall, and civil rights activist James Meredith.
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.
