1972 Press Photo Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and others at Pentagon briefing

Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird tells a Pentagon briefing today there are changes in the works. Laird accepted a task force report that supported charges by blacks of discrimination in military justice. At left are task force co-chairmen, Nathaniel R. Jones, general counsel of the NAACP, and Lt. General Claire E. Hutchin, Jr., commanding general of the First Army.

Photo is dated 1972.

Photo measures 10.25 x 8.25 inches.