FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1970s

He was succeeded by a long list of short-term directors throughout the Nixon – Ford – Carter era who could not match Hoover's larger persona.

Eventually, Director William H. Webster brought stability to Bureau, during the President Reagan era.

For convenient reference, the wanted suspect's sequence number and date of entry on the FBI list appear below, whenever possible.

As the decade began, the following fugitives were the FBI's Ten Most Wanted: The tenth space had just opened up at the end of the year 1969, but was promptly filled by a new individual on the list in the first week of 1970.

By the end of the decade, the following fugitives were remaining at large on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list: *Acting director