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Judge orders 2nd sanity exam in theater shooting

DENVER The man accused of killing 12 people in a Colorado movie theater shooting must undergo a second sanity evaluation by the state mental hospital because the first was "incomplete and inadequate,"...

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>Racist serial killer facing execution in Missouri

ST. LOUIS (AP) — No one knows exactly how many atrocities Joseph Paul Franklin committed as he crossed the country more than three decades ago, fueled by hatred of blacks and Jews. Along the way he...

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Racist serial killer facing execution in Missouri

No one knows exactly how many atrocities Joseph Paul Franklin committed as he crossed the country more than three decades ago, fueled by hatred of blacks and Jews. Along the way he bombed a synagogue,...

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Charles Knox was COINTELPRO target and in ATF’s Midwest 22 case

Omaha agents of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division sought federal prosecution for conspiracy against twenty-two suspected Black Panthers in 1970. The Panthers were blamed for a series of...

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Midwest 22 included Minneapolis teenager Gary Hogan in ATF conspiracy case

The Midwest 22 bomb conspiracy investigation by Omaha agents of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division targeted a 16 year-old, Gary Hogan, who bombed Dayton’s, a downtown St. Paul department store....

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Church Committee anniversary brings call for review of intelligence agencies

The fortieth anniversary of the Church Committee on Jan. 27 triggered a call for new Congressional hearings on America’s intelligence agencies by seventeen former committee staff members. The United...

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Raleigh House is Midwest 22 mystery man in ATF bomb conspiracy case

The planned prosecution of twenty-two Black Panthers and activists by the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division included one man with a mystery role, Raleigh House. The planned prosecution of the...

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Three Omaha relatives listed as Midwest 22 defendants in ATF case

Three members of the Peak family in Omaha, Nebraska were listed as potential defendants in a multi-state prosecution to be initiated by the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division. The Peak trio were on...

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Fugitive Black Panther leader Pete O’Neal was ATF target in Midwest 22 case

Felix “Pete” O’Neal, former head of the Black Panthers in Kansas City, Missouri, is self-exiled to Tanzania to avoid federal prison for a Gun Control Act violation. O’Neal was arrested on October 30,...

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United Nations to hold COINTELPRO review in May under human rights treaty

The United States Human Rights Network has announced that the United States will undergo a five-year Universal Periodic Review on May 11 of its compliance with human rights treaties to which the United...

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Burglary of FBI office did not stop COINTELPRO tampering of Omaha Two trial

The Media, Pennsylvania burglary of a FBI office and the theft of hundreds of pages of secret counterintelligence files by the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI was not in time to help the...

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Nebraska Supreme Court refuses to explain rejection of Black Panther appeal

The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to explain why it rejected a claim of innocence by Mondo we Langa, former David Rice. The court simply said “overruled” on Jan. 14, denying Mondo an explanation...

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State witness in COINTELPRO case was confessed bomber Duane Peak

Duane Peak, the confessed bomber in the 1970 death of an Omaha policeman, was the star witness against the Omaha Two, Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice). The Omaha Two were the...

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Internal report of Amnesty International says Omaha Two prisoners of conscience

The human rights group Amnesty International has long been aware of the case of the Omaha Two, Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice). The pair were leaders of an affiliate chapter...

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Treaty on racism will force Obama to answer UN on COINTELPRO and Omaha Two case

A United Nations treaty against racism, the International Convention of all forms of Racial Discrimination, requires the United States to submit to periodic review of its compliance with the treaty. On...

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The Midwest 22 included Omaha Two in ATF conspiracy case

Twenty-two alleged conspirators from four Midwestern states conspired to bomb public and other buildings in the summer of 1970 said agents of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division in Omaha,...

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Dead dispatcher’s ghost copy of 911 tape haunts Omaha Two case

The voice of a killer in the middle of the night, an anonymous 911...

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COINTELPRO target Marshall Eddie Conway released after 44 years in prison

Marshall Eddie Conway was released from a Maryland prison on March 4 after nearly forty-four years behind bars for a crime he says he didn’t commit. Conway, freed over an unconstitutional jury...

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ATF agent had vials of dynamite powder along with evidence in Omaha Two case

Thomas Sledge, an agent of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division, in Omaha, Nebraska, carried small plastic vials of dynamite powder with him while transporting evidence in the 1970 bombing murder...

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Police lieutenant sought arrest of Senator Ernie Chambers in Minard murder

Former Omaha police lieutenant James Perry told a private investigator hired by Nebraskans for Justice that he pushed for the arrest of Ernie Chambers for the 1970 murder of policeman Larry Minard, Sr....

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