[Ppnews] Policeman betrayed by J. Edgar Hoover to frame Omaha Two

[Political Prisoner News]

Larry Minard was the policeman betrayed by J. Edgar Hoover to frame Omaha Two

    * September 24th, 2010 3:48 pm ET
    * By <http://www.examiner.com/user-richardsonreports>Michael Richardson,
    * 
http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/larry-minard-was-the-policeman-betrayed-by-j-edgar-hoover-to-frame-the-omaha-tw 

Omaha police officer Larry Minard was murdered by an ambush bomb on 
August 17, 1970.  Minard and seven other patrol officers were 
responding to an anonymous phone call about a woman screaming at a 
vacant house.

The 29 year-old policeman was killed instantly when he examined a 
suitcase in the vacant dwelling.  Minard was buried three days later 
on what would have been his 30th birthday with fellow officers 
serving as pallbearers.  Three hundred Omaha policemen attended the funeral.

Minard had planned to go out and celebrate turning 30 with his wife 
Karen but instead was buried in Forest Lawn cemetery on his 
birthday.  Minard's children, ages 4 to 11, had already wrapped his 
birthday presents--gifts that Larry would never open.

Larry Minard, Jr. now proudly displays a tattoo of his father's 
official police photo.  Family members dutifully mark anniversaries, 
attend court sessions, and make media statements when Minard's death 
is in the news.

Larry and Karen were married in 1958, the same year Minard joined the 
Navy.  Serving on a destroyer tender, Minard made two long overseas 
trips before his discharge from the service in 1961.

Minard applied for the Nebraska State Patrol but missed the deadline 
by one day so he then applied for positions with both the Omaha Fire 
and the Omaha Police Departments.  The police job opened up first and 
Larry put on the badge.

The day Larry Minard died, his boss Assistant Chief of Police Glen 
Gates and Special-Agent-in-Charge Paul Young of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, conspired to let the anonymous 911 caller that lured 
Minard to his death get away with murder.

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, had been hounding Special Agent 
Young for months to get Black Panther leaders Ed Poindexter and Mondo 
we Longer (formerly David Rice) off the streets as part of the 
clandestine Operation COINTELPRO.

Young saw an opportunity to make a case against the two Panthers for 
the bombing but the unknown killer who made the 911 call stood in the 
way so a plan was hatched to send the 911 recording to Washington, 
D.C. where Hoover could intervene.

When Ivan Willard Conrad, the head of the FBI crime laboratory, got 
the tape and secret COINTELPRO memorandum from Omaha two days later 
he called Hoover to verify that he was to withhold a report on the 
identity of the 911 caller thus ending the search for Minard's killer.

Hoover verified that no report was to be made on the 911 tape and 
that only oral information was to be shared with Paul Young at the 
Omaha FBI field office.  Conrad noted his call with Hoover on the 
memo and initialed and dated it one day before Larry Minard was buried.

Hoover's order held, the jury that convicted Ed Poindexter and Mondo 
we Langa never got to hear the voice of Minard's killer.  Nor did the 
jury know that the Omaha Two were targets of Hoover's COINTELPRO program.

Larry Minard's widow and children believe the official version of the 
crime.  The awful truth that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the withholding 
of evidence about the identity of Minard's killer didn't come out 
until years later with the release of COINTELPRO documents and is too 
painful for the family to accept.

The Omaha Two, Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, remain incarcerated 
at the maximum-security Nebraska State Penitentiary in their 40th 
year of imprisonment.  Both men deny any involvement in Larry Minard's death.

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