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<h1 class="reader-title">Policeman’s murder on August 17, 1970
triggered clandestine COINTELPRO operation against the Omaha
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Michael Richardson - August 17, 2019</div>
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<p>Forty-nine years ago, <a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/omaha-police-claimed-bomb-was-made-in-kitchen-of-black-panther-home/">August
17, 1970</a>, Omaha police received a 911 call about
a woman screaming in a vacant house. Eight officers
arrived at the scene where a bomb waited. <a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2018/08/17/bombing-murder-of-omaha-policeman-in-1970-was-used-by-fbi-against-black-panther-leaders/">Patrolman
Larry Minard</a> was killed and the others injured.
Omaha’s Black Panther Party known as the National
Committee to Combat Fascism was immediately suspected
and before the day was out its leaders were marked for
blame.</p>
<p><a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2018/11/01/nebraskas-most-controversial-prisoner-ed-poindexter-marks-forty-eight-birthdays-behind-bars/">Edward
Poindexter</a> and <a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/prison-wisdom-of-wopashitwe-mondo-eyen-we-langa/">Wopashitwe
Mondo Eyen we Langa</a> (former <a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/growing-up-black-in-omaha-included-loitering-arrest-for-poet-activist-david-rice/">David
Rice</a>) headed the local NCCF chapter and were
targeted by agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation under the illegal counterintelligence
operation code-named <a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/fbi-sought-electric-chair-execution-of-black-panther-leaders-in-omaha/">COINTELPRO</a>.
One thing stood in the way of the plot to pin the
crime on the two leaders, a recording of the fatal 911
call. FBI <a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/fbi-special-agent-in-charge-paul-young-plotted-conspiracy-against-black-panthers/">Special
Agent in Charge Paul Young</a> met with Deputy Chief
of Police Glen Gates and they conspired, the day of
the bombing, to withhold an audiological report by the
<a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/fbi-laboratory-director-ivan-conrad-withheld-report-on-policemans-murder/">FBI
Laboratory</a> on the identity of the anonymous
caller.</p>
<p>A fifteen year-old, Duane Peak, confessed to the
crime but never served a day in prison because he got
a deal from the prosecutor, Donald Knowles. Peak
implicated Poindexter and Mondo and they went to
prison instead. Peak’s older brother, Donald Peak, was
a FBI informant and led police to Duane’s hiding
place. Donald may have brokered the deal for his
brother.</p>
<p>At the preliminary hearing a month after the bombing,
Duane Peak denied Poindexter and Mondo had any
involvement in the crime. Knowles called for a
continuance and sent for Donald Peak and the
grandfather, Rev. Foster Goodlett. When Peak returned
to the witness stand hours later he changed his story
and said the two leaders put him up to the crime and
helped him.</p>
<p>One of Donald Peak’s sisters said the voice on the
911 recording sounded like Donald but the police did
not follow up the lead. With the Peak brothers out of
the way, the case against Poindexter and Mondo went
forward. Both men were convicted following a
controversial trial marred by conflicting police
testimony, withheld evidence, and perjury.</p>
<p><a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/prosecutor-don-kleine-refuses-to-reopen-1971-case-of-black-panther-leader-edward-poindexter/">Don
Kleine</a>, the current Douglas County Attorney, was
hired by Donald Knowles and accepts as adequate the
work of his supervisor. Kleine has <a
href="https://www.omaha.com/news/metro/author-asks-don-kleine-gov-ricketts-to-reopen-probe-of/article_59ca1b74-de3d-5396-a6cf-3a21c5b92f88.html">refused
a request to reopen the murder investigation</a> in
light of information about the secret role of the FBI
in the case that was unknown to the jury.</p>
<p>Mondo died in March 2016 at the Nebraska State
Penitentiary. Ed Poindexter remains imprisoned,
forty-nine years after the bombing, serving a life
without parole sentence while continuing to proclaim
his innocence. Duane Peak is living in Spokane,
Washington under an assumed name. Donald Peak was
never charged and lives in Omaha. Don Kleine is
seeking reelection.</p>
<p><i>Parts of the article are excerpted from </i><a
href="https://richardsonreports.wordpress.com/2018/08/30/new-book-on-fbis-war-against-the-black-panthers-gets-five-star-review/">FRAMED:
J. Edgar Hoover, COINTELPRO & the Omaha Two
story</a>,<i> in print edition at </i><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><i>
and in </i><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">ebook</a><i>.
Portions of the book may 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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