Pentagon lifts photo ban on war dead
The Defense Department has announced it will allow news organizations to take photos of flag-draped coffins of fallen soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with David Perlmutter, a documentary photographer and journalism professor at the University of Kansas, about the impact of the policy shift and why the ban was first put in place.
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