Official tour guides at the U.S. Capitol have been told to only discuss the events of Jan. 6 if questioned about it by visitors.
Visitors on official guided tours of the U.S. Capitol are peppered with facts about its rich history. They learn about the building’s architect and the materials used to construct it. They are told how the British army torched the Capitol in 1814. And they are reminded that Abraham Lincoln vowed to finish its construction during the Civil War to show the Union would go on.But unless visitors ask, they probably won’t hear a word from the red coat-wearing guides about the Jan.
The center also said it could not share how many visitors go on the official tours each year or how many tour guides work at the Capitol, which reopened to tourists last spring after a lengthy shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. Dean also said she believes some of the damage to the Capitol should have been left intact as a reminder of the violence of that day and the attempt by those who forced their way into the building to halt the democratic process. Windows and doors were shattered, paint was tracked on stairwells and on statues, and fire extinguishers and chemical sprays left a residue that took weeks to clean up.
A number of former Capitol tour guides interviewed for this article say they understand why not discussing Jan. 6 would make sense.“So many visitors are going to be on both sides, for lack of a better term,” said Peter Byrd, a retired former guide who led more than 13,000 tours. “Anybody who’s been around the Capitol any length of time knows that if you’re not real careful in your choice of words, sometimes you can end up in a hornet’s nest,” he said. “For that reason, I wouldn’t use the word ‘insurrection,’ even though that’s word I call it when I’m talking to friends about it.”
“If we cannot agree on basic facts,” Grossman added, “we cannot constructively discuss any aspect of our history or what we learn from it.”
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