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<h1 class="reader-title">Nebraska’s most controversial prisoner
Ed Poindexter marks forty-eight birthdays behind bars</h1>
Michael Richardson - November 1, 2018</div>
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<p><a
href="https://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-I-believe-that-Edward-by-Michael-Richardson-Black-Panthers_COINTELPRO_Crime_Evidence-180719-612.html">Edward
Alan Poindexter</a> was born November 1, 1944, in
Omaha, Nebraska. Forty-eight birthdays have passed in
prison as Poindexter, now 76, is two years short of a
half-century locked up for a crime he says he did not
commit. Poindexter and David Rice (later <a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/omaha-police-claimed-bomb-was-made-in-kitchen-of-black-panther-home/">Wopashite
Mondo Eyen we Langa</a>) were convicted after a
controversial trial for the August 17, 1970 bomb
murder of Patrolman Larry Minard.</p>
<p>Leaders of Omaha’s <a
href="https://www.opednews.com/articles/Six-things-I-learned-writi-by-Michael-Richardson-Black-Panther-Party_Black-Panthers_Books_COINTELPRO-180705-678.html">Black
Panther affiliate chapter</a>, the National
Committee to Combat Fascism, Poindexter and Rice were
targets of <a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/fbi-sought-electric-chair-execution-of-black-panther-leaders-in-omaha/">COINTELPRO</a>,
a clandestine counterintelligence operation of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. The pair was arrested
and prosecuted for murder in a trial marred by a
missing 911 recording of a killer’s voice,
contradictory dynamite testimony by two detectives,
and planted dynamite particles.</p>
<p>During a prison interview with Nebraska’s most
controversial prisoner, Poindexter complained of the
confessed bomber’s lack of remorse and his disgust of
Duane Peak’s attidude about the bombing that left five
young children fatherless. Peak, after six different
versions of the crime, implicated Poindexter in
exchange for never serving a day in prison and laughed
about the murder. Poindexter empathized with the five
children of Minard as he lost his own father at an
early age.</p>
<p>Ed’s father helped him learn to read. “I remember
learning how to read by sitting on the floor between
my father’s legs as he read the newspaper, and would
point up to words and pictures that he would either
read for me or explain what the photos were.”</p>
<p>“Daddy worked on the railroad. He must have really
hated his job and the role he had to play for white
folks because he would never talk about the job, and
would always return at the end of the day so angry
that we’d often clear the living room until Daddy had
chilled out and read the papers.”</p>
<p>“One day I misread Daddy’s mood, and went to sit on
the floor in front of him for my daily lesson in
reading, but he slapped me up side of the head and
yelled to leave him alone. I ran upstairs toward the
bedroom crying and mumbling under my breath, “I hate
you! I wish you were dead!”</p>
<p>“I think that was on a Friday, because the next
morning was a Saturday when I awakened and went
downstairs. There was that familiar but peculiar odor
of grease-fried hair under a straightening comb. The
living room was filled with neighbors, quiet and
somber. They all spoke to me, but said nothing else. A
couple of the women were crying.”</p>
<p>“I entered the kitchen for breakfast, and Aunt Alice
was frying Mama’s hair. She did not mince words with
me or sugar coat it with typical fairy tales, but
instead told me directly, “Butch honey, your father’s
dead. He drown at Carter Lake last night, and you are
never going to see him again.”</p>
<p>“I was stunned. The searing pain and shock was
unspeakable. I was only eight, and Daddy was just
twenty-six, and I’d never see him again.”</p>
<p>“I’d wished him dead on Friday, and come Saturday
morning he was dead. Actually, he drowned Friday
evening late. I got my wish. I blamed myself for his
death, and it took me nearly two years to come out of
my guilt shell and begin acting like a normal kid
again. It wasn’t until 1992 that I finally come to
grips with the entire issue of my father’s untimely
death that was probably driven by his alcoholism.”</p>
<p>“My Uncle Bob would come to Omaha about once a year
to check on us. I remember one visit Uncle Bob said he
would buy me anything I wanted. I thought for a long
time, kids want a lot of things, but I didn’t want
anything. I just wanted my father back.”</p>
<p>At his April 1971 trial, Poindexter testified he did
not know officer Minard, had no ill will toward him,
and had nothing to do with his murder. Poindexter and
Rice were convicted by a jury that never heard the 911
recording that lured Minard to his death. Nor did the
jury know the dynamite testimony was unreliable as
post-trial revelations would show. Rice died in prison
in March 2016. Poindexter, who has repeatedly been
denied a new trial, remains imprisoned at the
maximum-security Nebraska State Penitentiary serving a
life without parole sentence.</p>
<p>Ed Poindexter has never wavered in his steadfast
denial of any guilt or role in the Minard murder and
continues to maintain his innocence. “I was unjustly
accused of a crime I did not commit.”</p>
<p><i>The story of Ed Poindexter, the flawed
investigation, prosecution, and trial is now
available in my new book, </i>FRAMED: J. Edgar
Hoover, COINTELPRO & the Omaha Two story,<i> in
print edition at <a
href="https://www.amazon.com/FRAMED-Edgar-Hoover-COINTELPRO-Omaha/dp/1985021994/ref=sr_1_43?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1530637788&sr=1-43&keywords=framed">Amazon</a>
and in ebook format at <a
href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=node%3D154606011&field-keywords=FRAMED%3A+J.+Edgar+Hoover%2C+COINTELPRO+%26+the+Omaha+Two+story">Kindle</a>.
Portions of the book may also be read free online at
</i><a
href="https://northomahahistory.com/2017/07/07/framed-series-summary-by-michael-richardson/">NorthOmahaHistory.com</a>.
<i>The book is also available to patrons of the Omaha
Public Library.</i></p>
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