BOOK:: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Illustrated with more than 250 black-and-white photographs. BOOK DESIGN BY: Jean Krulis. JACKET DESIGN BY: Melissa Ring. CONTENTS: The History of the Ten Most Wanted List; Before the Ten Most Wanted List; The 1950s; The 1950s Rogues' Gallery; The 1960s; The 1960s Rogues' Gallery; The 1970s; The 1970s Rogues' Gallery; The 1980s; The 1980s Rogues' Gallery; The Current Ten Most Wanted List; Afterword; A Chronological Listing of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives"; How to Contact the FBI. SYNOPSIS: The FBI's Most Wanted Program officially began on March 14, 1950, when Director J. Edgar Hoover named "Tough Tommy" Holden, a convicted train robber and prison escapee, number one on the first Ten most Wanted List. On May 24, Morris Guralnick, who had once bitten off a policeman's finger, was added on as number ten and the first Most Wanted List was complete. Most Wanted is a fascinating history and current overview of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List from its Gangster Era preview--when widely distributed posters of Public Enemy no. 1 assisted the efforts of law enforcement officers pursuing criminals such as John Dillinger and Alvin karpas--right up to the present day. Heavily illustrated with mug shots, the book is organized decade by decade, and within each ten-year period profiles a number of the most notorious Ten Most Wanted fugitives. Each featured case is accompanied by a photograph (when available), and includes background history, crimes committed, and the outcome of the case in a fast-moving narrative drawing heavily on the FBI's own source material. There is also an additional rogues' gallery for each decade, with photographs, dates, and a brief description of each fugitive's crime. The more than 400 fugitives who have made the Ten most Wanted List committed a wide variety of serious crimes--among these mass murder, kidnap, rape, bank robbery, and bombing. In the 1960s, after one of the most spectacular kidnappings of all time, the first woman was added to the Ten Most Wanted List. Five out of the next twenty-three additions were also women--one reason for this was the involvement of many women in the rise of radicalism that was sparked by national protests against the Vietnam War. In the 1970s, the FBI had difficulty apprehending "political revolutionaries" whose modus operandi did not fit the typical criminal pattern of continued association with family and friends. Two of the sixteen fugitives on one particularly large Ten Most Wanted List during this decade were never captured and were later removed from the List. The 1980s saw a dramatic change in the Most Wanted program when the US Marshal's Office began to assume more responsibility for apprehending fugitives, and the FBI was able to shift its resources to other areas such as narcotics. The book closes with a chapter on "The Current Top Ten Most Wanted List," which reflects the List as accurately as possible at the time of publication. There is also a list of telephone numbers for FBI offices throughout the country. So, should you recognize a Most Wanted fugitive, the FBI suggests that you call the nearest Bureau office. Almost without exception, Most Wanted fugitives are considered to be "armed and extremely dangerous." A private citizen's biggest contribution to law enforcement is to use a telephone to provide the tip and let the authorities take over from there. This is a book for anyone fascinated by the resurgent interest in true crime generated by national television and the publication of numerous books detailing notorious contemporary crimes. - and - Specially written to take advantage of the public's fascination with true crime stories and the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List generated by national television and the publication of numerous books recounting today's notorious crimes, Most Wanted presents the h.

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Most Wanted A History of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List

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Bonanza Books, distributed by Outlet Book Company, Inc., a Random House Company, New York

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0517693305

ISBN 13

9780517693308

Binding

Hard Cover

Edition

First Edition 1st Printing.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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CRIME CRIMINALS UNITED STATES SOCIAL SCIENCE CRIMINOLOGY MOST WANTED TRUE HISTORY

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