Inside the New York Times investigation of Jan. 6 | The Playback

As thousands of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2020, the New York Times Visual Investigations team collected hundreds of hours of real-time footage, painstakingly reconstructing the event in this play-by-play of perhaps the world’s best documented crime scene.

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Featuring: Haley Willis, Dmitry Khavin, Natalie Reneau, Dahlia Kozlowsky
Series producer: Sam Vladimirsky
Editor: Dylan Chant
Animator: Tricia Cenit
Executive Producer: Sky Dylan-Robbins
Footage Courtesy of The New York Times

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