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: West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has died, Surveyor spacecraft lands on the moon, Russians launch a man into space, Joseph Stalin's daughter (Svetlana Alliluyeva) seeks exile in the United States, negroes protest in Kentucky, Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the US Army, Dean Rusk says the US will not be defeated or withdraw from South Vietnam, says the US will not allow the North Vietnamese to conquer South Vietnam, military coup in Greece.
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.
