FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1960s
In the 1960s, for a second decade, the United States FBI continued to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Following is a brief review of FBI people and events that place the 1960s decade in context, and then an historical list of individual suspects whose names first appeared on the 10 Most Wanted list during the decade of the 1960s, under FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
FBI headlines in the 1960s
As a decade, the 1960s were the final and most controversial of the Hoover era in the Bureau. The famous Director had formed and defined the Bureau for nearly a half century. During the turbulent 1960s, the FBI continued controversial domestic surveillance in an operation called Cointelpro. It aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States, including civil rights leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr. who was a frequent target of investigation.As a more friendly face presented to the public, in 1965 Warner Bros. Television presented the series The F.B.I., showing dramatizations taken from actual historical FBI cases, starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as fictional agent Louis Erskine. Epilogues included Zimbalist stepping out of character to alert viewers to Ten Most Wanted Fugitives from the FBI's contemporary list.
FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives to begin the 1960s
The FBI in the past has identified individuals by the sequence number in which each individual has appeared on the list. Some individuals have even appeared twice, and often a sequence number was permanently assigned to an individual suspect who was soon caught, captured, or simply removed, before his or her appearance could be published on the publicly released list. In those cases, the public would see only gaps in the number sequence reported by the FBI. For convenient reference, the wanted suspect's sequence number and date of entry on the FBI list appear below, whenever possible.As the new decade opened, six of the ten places on the list remained filled by these elusive long-time fugitives, then still at large:
FBI Most Wanted Fugitives added during the 1960s
The most wanted fugitives listed in the decade of the 1960s include :1967
End of the decade
By the end of the decade, the following fugitives were remaining at large on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list:| Name | Sequence number | Date of entry |
| John William Clousre | #203 | 1965 |
| Charles Lee Herron | #265 | 1968 |
| Taylor Morris Teaford | #279 | 1968 |
| Byron James Rice | #282 | 1968 |
| Warren David Reddock | #298 | 1969 |
| Cameron David Bishop | #300 | 1969 |
| Marie Dean Arrington | #301 | 1969 |
| Benjamin Hoskin Paddock | #302 | 1969 |
| Joseph Lloyd Thomas | #304 | 1969 |
The tenth space had just opened up at the end of the year 1969.