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Michael Godek/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) The early collection of historical artifacts collected by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History documenting the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 , includes a flak jacket worn by a journalist when she was attacked and signs with violent rhetoric. "Off with their heads," one sign reads, echoing the chilling words chanted by rioters who stormed the Capitol and threatened the lives of lawmakers. "Those are heavy signs. They clearly took some time to repaint, and someone came with bolts and tools to attach them to street poles. So, they were not walking around carrying those. They wanted them to be someplace where people could see them and presumably thought that they would stay there for a long time," Claire Jerry, curator of political history at the museum told ABC News, describing the sign and others in the collection with words stenciled and spray-painted on large, thick sheets of metal. On Jan.
(WASHINGTON) The early collection of historical artifacts collected by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History documenting the attack on the U.