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PBS NewsHour | U.S. and U.K. in Legal Battle over Ex-IRA Militants' Stories | PBS

Duration: 09:14
Program: PBS NewsHour #10439
Broadcast Date: Aug. 23, 2012

Boston University acted as a safeguard for the oral histories of former Northern Irish militants. Participants were promised their stories would remain private until their deaths. But new clues in an unsolved murder in Ireland triggered the U.S. Department of Justice to subpoena the tapes. Special correspondent Kira Kay reports.

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Post Date: August 23, 2012