The first session aired Thursday at 5 p.m. Pacific time — notably, during prime time on the East Coast. It was one of six televised hearings planned on the committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the nation’s Capitol.
Over the coming weeks, the nine-member committee will attempt to reconstruct the days leading up to the insurrection, which followed former President Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. The panel has gathered more than 1,000 depositions and countless documents.
The nine members of the House’s Jan. 6 committee lead the first of six prime-time hearings on their findings Thursday in Washington. They spent nearly a year holding over 1,000 interviews and reviewing over 140,000 documents on the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Photographers surround Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who testified Thursday about being knocked out and slipping on blood as she fought off attackers at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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A video of then-President Trump addressing supporters outside the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, plays at Thursday’s hearing of the committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.
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Michael Fanone, a former officer for D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, appears stone-faced at Thursday’s opening hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
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California Democratic Reps. Adam B. Schiff of Burbank and Zoe Lofgren of San Jose, both members of the Jan. 6 committee, listen during Thursday’s hearing.
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Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, one of two Republicans on the Jan. 6 committee, speaks at the opening hearing Thursday.
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A media sketch artist draws Thursday’s opening hearing of the Jan. 6 committee.
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Sandra Garza, girlfriend of late Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, holds his former colleague Caroline Edwards after Edwards testified at Thursday’s hearing about defending the Capitol on Jan. 6. Sicknick, who was pepper-sprayed by Trump supporters, collapsed that evening and died of a stroke the next day.
Kent Nishimura is a former staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times, based in Washington, D.C. Born in Taiwan, Nishimura immigrated to the United States, grew up in Hawaii and is a graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International, the National Headliner Awards, the White House News Photographers Assn. and the National Press Photographers Assn., among others. He has worked on staff at newspapers across the United States and freelanced for many national and international publications before joining The Times in 2017.
