America’s Most Wanted
“America’s Most Wanted” playing cards based on the anti-crime reality TV show. 2003.
Following the kidnap and murder of his son in 1981, John Walsh became a victim rights advocate, an anti-crime activist, and the host/creator of America's Most Wanted. This programme appeared on Fox TV on Saturday nights between 1988 and 2013. It was the longest-running crime reality show in Fox's history and contributed to the capture of more than 1,000 fugitives.
This pack of cards has 52 cards, 2 jokers and an extra card about Walsh and the TV programme, and was published by FacePrint Global Solutions Inc., Fresno, CA. in 2003, possibly following the example of the many “Most Wanted” packs being produced at this time. Each card shows a photo of a dangerous criminal, his/her date of birth, physical description, the charges, some details of the crimes and the State in which they took place.
Above: “America’s Most Wanted” playing cards based on the anti-crime realityTV show. Published by FacePrint Global Solutions Inc., Fresno, CA., 2003.
By Peter Burnett
United Kingdom • Member since July 27, 2022
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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