Queen shakes hands with former IRA leader

Queen shakes hands with former IRA leader

June 27, 2012 4:31 PM

In Northern Ireland, Queen Elizabeth II and a former leader of the Irish Republican Army shook hands - an act that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago. Mark Phillips reports on the historic handshake.

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