"Speckles" appearing in B&W photos

Hello.
I have scanned several black & white photos into Photoshop.
When I display these in Photoshop, in full screen, the presence of white speckles spoils the photo.
If I open the same photo outside of Photoshop, using windows viewer, again at full screen, there are no speckles.
These photos are to be incorporated in a DVD in Adobe premiere so I would like to remove the speckles. Can anyone help please?
Thanks.
Jim

Hello everyone thanks for your comments.
I resolved the problem by scanning the photos in at 300 or 600 dpi then applying "despeckle" and "salt and pepper" filters and finally resizing the images to a size that Premiere would accept.
I had initially made the DVD incorporating these photos and it was in the "finished" DVD that I saw how bad the images were.
The photos are 50 years old and are on a slightly matt paper. I suppose the paper would appear "dimpled" under magnification. I wonder if this contributed to the problem.
The fact is that in full-screen the "raw" scanned photos looked fine in the Windows viewer, considerably speckled in Photoshop and awful in the premiere DVD!
Unfortunately I have deleted all the sub-standard photos after, at last, completing the DVD.
Thanks again for your most helpful comments.
Jim

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