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Professor sues Pentagon to make public honour guard photos from Dover Air Base
The lawsuit challenges the censorship policy initiated in 1991 by then-Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, and continued by the Pentagon under the Clinton and Bush Administrations. The 1991 policy reversed the traditional American practice of honoring the fallen in solemn public ceremonies centered on flag-draped caskets.

University of Delaware Professor Ralph Begleiter's interview on NPR's All Things Considered . 2005 04 29
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The Political Manipulation of War Images, by Kelly Gast, University of Delaware . 2005 04 29
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Obama Administration Lifts Blanket Ban on Media Coverage of the Return of Fallen Soldiers
Washington, DC, February 26, 2009 – Today Secretary of Defense Robert Gates lifted a blanket ban on news media coverage of the honor guard ceremonies that mark the return of military casualties from abroad.  The new policy will permit media coverage of the ceremonies, during which caskets draped with American flags are brought home from war, after consultation with the families of the fallen.  The Obama administration’s move restores press access to the honor ceremonies, which had been the practice from World War II through the Panama invasion of 1989. During the lead-up to the Gulf War in 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney instituted the ban.  The news media lost a first amendment challenge to the ban, but Professor Ralph Begleiter and the National Security Archive forced the release of hundreds of images taken by military photographers under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 2005.
[...] “Dick Cheney’s original ban on media coverage in the lead-up to the Gulf War was clearly meant to hide the cost of war.  It reversed decades of respectful open media access,” explained Tom Blanton, the Archive’s director.

links . The National Security Archive:
156a 3.1 _ 2009 02 26 . Obama Administration Lifts Blanket Ban on Media Coverage of the Return of Fallen Soldiers: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20090226//
156a 3.2 _ 2005 08 04 . Pentagon releaes more Photos of war casualty honour guards http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB161/
156a 3.3 _ 2005 04 28 . Return of the Fallen http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB152/
156a 3.4 _ 2004 10 04 . Professor sues Pentagon to make public honour guard photos from Dover Air Base
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB136/index.htm

Front page of the Washington Post . 2005 04 29

The Tillman Story is a 2010 documentary film directed by Amir Bar-Lev. The film is about the 2004 death ofU.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman in the war in Afghanistan, the cover-up of the true circumstances of his death, and his family's struggle to unearth the truth. It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.