Friday, August 24, 2012

HISTORY - U.S. vs U.K. Over IRA Oral Histories

"U.S. and U.K. Entangled in Legal Battle to Release Former IRA Militants' Stories" PBS Newshour 8/23/2012

Excerpt

SUMMARY: 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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