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. Charles De Gaulle vetoes Britain's entry into the European common market, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan comments on the rebuke, a controversy between the US and Canada on nuclear bombs, Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker angrily criticizes the US, a possible collapse of the Canadian government, the Russians give signs of an interest in a nuclear test ban treaty, reports of a continued arms buildup in Cuba, comments by Nelson Rockefeller, Robert McNamara, and Dean Rusk, negro student James Meredith decides to continue at Mississippi University, Harvey Gant enrolls at Clemson University, poet Robert Frost dies, an inexperienced pilot brings down a plane to a safe landing.
This is a WABC radio news broadcast.
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.