FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1963
Overview
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972...
, continued for a fourteenth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list arose from a conversation held in late 1949 between J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, and William Kinsey Hutchinson, International News Service Editor-in-Chief, who were discussing ways to promote capture of the...
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As the year 1963 began, eight of the ten places on the list remained filled by these elusive long-time fugitives from prior years, then still at large:
- 1950 #14 (thirteen years), Frederick J. Tenuto remained still at large
- 1954 #78 (nine years), David Daniel Keegan process dismissed December 13, 1963
- 1956 #97 (seven years), Eugene Francis Newman remained still at large
- 1960 #137 (three years), Donald Leroy Payne remained still at large
- 1960 #143 (three years), John B.
