In 1969, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a twentieth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
The FBI began the year 1969 with few multi-year long-timers on the list, and many Fugitives from the prior year who were soon captured in the early half of the year:
But there were few new fugitives added in 1969 to replace those names, as the string of many years of good luck had run out for the FBI in quickly capturing its most wanted. In all total for 1969, the FBI only added eleven new fugitives that year, the least number since 1959.