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<h2><b>Larry Minard was the policeman betrayed by J. Edgar Hoover to
frame Omaha Two</b></h2>
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<li><font size=3>September 24th, 2010 3:48 pm ET
<li>By <a href="http://www.examiner.com/user-richardsonreports">Michael
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</ul>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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