Vox Pop (radio)

The program was launched in 1932 on KTRH in Houston when advertising salesmen Parks Johnson and Jerry Belcher went into the street with portable microphones to talk to people about the 1932 presidential race between Herbert Hoover and FDR.

Three years later, Johnson and Belcher moved the show to New York, and were heard on the Blue Network in 1935 as a summer replacement for Joe Penner.

[1] In the 1938 Milton Bradley game, Vox Pop, players pulled chips from a bag to answer questions on a host's card.

The game box cover displayed a yellow lightning bolt on a blue field.

The box cover of a later edition (titled The New Vox Pop on the question cards) showed Johnson and Butterworth set against a New York skyline.

On the Vox Pop program for February 4, 1939, publicist Jim Moran was interviewed by Parks Johnson and Wally Butterworth as he prepared to throw eggs at an electric fan.