41 minutes of fear: A video timeline from inside the Capitol siege

Just one more thing…

In an astonishing video, The Washington Post reconstructed the pandemonium inside the Capitol for the video in this post. The Post examined text messages, photos and hundreds of videos, some of which were exclusively obtained. By synchronizing the footage and locating some of the camera angles within a digital 3-D model of the building, The Post was able to map the rioters’ movements and assess how close they came to lawmakers — in some cases feet apart or separated only by a handful of vastly outnumbered police officers.

I don’t know if non-Post subscribers can access the video. I hope you can. This reconstruction, along with The New Yorker video I posted earlier, are incredible documentations of the day I called in a column last week, “a date that will live in infamy – a day that could be considered the worst day in the history of our formerly great democratic republic.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/01/16/video-timeline-capitol-siege/?arc404=true

Published by Ted Block

Ted Block is a veteran “Mad Man,” having spent 45+ years in the advertising industry. During his career, he was media director of several advertising agencies, including Benton & Bowles in New York and Foote, Cone and Belding in San Francisco; account management director on clients as varied as Clorox, Levi’s and the California Raisin Advisory Board (yes, Ted was responsible for the California Dancing Raisins campaign); and regional director for Asia based in Tokyo for Foote, Cone where he was also the founding president of FCB’s Japanese operations. Ted holds a Bachelor’s degree in communications from Queens College and, before starting in advertising, served on active duty as an officer on USS McCloy (DE-1038) in the U.S. Navy. Besides writing Around the Block, Ted is also a guest columnist for the Palm Beach Post.

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