On August 18, 1970, Angela Yvonne Davis became the third woman ever placed on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, sought for her supposed involvement in kidnappings and murders growing out of an armed seizure of a Marin County Courthouse in California. Until her arrest two months...
beginning in the 1950s.¹ Since 1949, the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list has been at the disposal of agents to work with other law enforcement agencies and the general public, to help capture dangerous fugitives. The FBI formed “COINTELPRO” (an acronym for counterintelligence service...
Making the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, Dallas eluded the law for almost a year until the FBI tracked him down in a small town in California. Dallas is serving 30 years for murder. Episode 11 – The World Trade Center Bombing On February 26, 1993, an explosion rocked the World Trade ...
1920s and ’30s. In 1932, at Hoover’s direction, the bureau began issuing a national bulletin, “Fugitives Wanted by Police,” to publicize its work; the bulletin became the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list in 1950. Also in 1932 the bureau established a technical laboratory, now based ...
The bureau had put out its first “Wanted” poster in 1919, and by the late 1920s similar posters were circulating in the United States, Canada and Europe. They later spread worldwide, and in 1950 the FBI would debut its now-famous “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list. ...
1920s and ’30s. In 1932, at Hoover’s direction, the bureau began issuing a national bulletin, “Fugitives Wanted by Police,” to publicize its work; the bulletin became the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list in 1950. Also in 1932 the bureau established a technical laboratory, now based ...
I replied that I loved my work and intended to stay and serve out my ten-year term as Director. And then, because the set-up made me uneasy, I added that I was not “reliable” in the way politicians use that word, but he could always count on me to tell him the truth. I adde...