There is no way to spin being beaten and bloodied and scared. The history of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is still being written, which is an important and massive undertaking. 

Not everyone wants to talk about the bear spray and broken windows. But the new documentary “The Sixth” by D.C. filmmakers Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine gives a fresh voice to some of the people on the ground and in the line of fire that day: police officers, a journalist, a congressional staffer and a member of Congress. The film is from their perspectives; it’s a sense of what it felt like to be there. 

Show Notes:

• They staffed the Jan. 6 committee. Threats still follow them
• Supreme Court ruling on Trump immunity could alter impeachment
• Trump immunity protesters see ‘make-or-break moment for our republic’
• Supreme Court questions use of statute against Jan. 6 defendants
• Democrats say ‘weaponization’ panel is rewriting history of Jan. 6
• ‘People just don’t want to remember’: Congress blows past deadline for Jan. 6 plaque
• Jan. 6 echoes loudly on the campaign trail, but Capitol falls quiet on third anniversary
• ‘All I could see was what was in front of me’: Jan. 6 anniversary means a chance to zoom out
• From our Political Theater archives (Episode 233 to be exact): Jan. 6, 2021: In their own words
• Roll Call on YouTube, including Political Theater, Hits and Misses and more