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:"In 1996, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., upheld the ban after media outlets and some other organizations sued to have it lifted. Citing the need to reduce the hardship and protect the privacy of grieving families, the court held that the ban did not violate First Amendment guarantees of [[freedom of speech]] and of the press."
*Nick Childs, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3239659.stm "No cameras for US war dead's return,"] BBC/UK, November 4, 2003.
=== <i>Seattle Times</i>' Coffins' Photo, April 18, 2004 ===
*Bill Carter, [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/national/23PHOT.html? "Pentagon Ban on Pictures of Dead Troops Is Broken,"] ''New York Times'', April 23, 2004: "The Pentagon's ban on making images of dead soldiers' homecomings at military bases public was briefly relaxed yesterday, as hundreds of photographs of flag-draped coffins at Dover Air Force Base were released on the Internet by a Web site dedicated to combating government secrecy. ... The Web site, the Memory Hole (www.thememoryhole.org), had filed a Freedom of Information Act request last year, seeking any pictures of coffins arriving from Iraq at the Dover base in Delaware, the destination for most of the bodies. The Pentagon yesterday labeled the Air Force Air Mobility Command's decision to grant the request a mistake, but news organizations quickly used a selection of the 361 images taken by Defense Department photographers."
*Caroline Overington, [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/23/1082616327044.html "Photos released in error,"] ''The Age'' (Australia), April 24, 2004: "The US Air Force released 361 photographs of the flag-draped coffins of American soldiers to an internet website yesterday, angering the Pentagon. ... The photographs - which Department of Defence photographers took at an air force base that doubles as a soldiers' mortuary in Dover, Delaware - were apparently released in error to a website called [http://www.thememoryhole.org The Memory Hole]. ... Media organisations across the US, which are banned from taking similar photographs - quickly picked up the photographs. ... Several US newspapers were planning to use the images - mostly of coffins containing the remains of soldiers killed in Iraq - on their front pages." [Note 4/24/04 The Memory Hole link is not working properly.]
=== Fallout ===
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3652171.stm "US concern over war dead photos,"] BBC/UK, April 23, 2004: "Pentagon lawyers are examining the release of photographs of the coffins of dead American soldiers repatriated from Iraq."
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== External Links ==
*Tim Harper, [http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1067728207768&call_pageid=1038394944805&col=1038394 "Pentagon keeps dead out of sight. Bush team doesn't want people to see human cost of war. Even body bags are now sanitized as `transfer tubes',"], ''Toronto Star'', November 2, 20003.
*Elisabeth Bumiller, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/05/politics/campaigns/05STRA.html "Issue for Bush: How to Speak of Casualties?,"], ''New York Times'', November 5, 2003.
*[http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1395585 Photograph published by ''BartCop'' and posted by the ''Democratic Underground''], March 12, 2004.