Episode 2: April 27 - May 3 - a podcast by NBC12

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In this episode of How We Got Here – Dozens killed when a packed courtroom floor gives way at the Virginia State Capitol in what became known as the Capitol Calamity.

Plus the epic Battle of Chancellorsville leads to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson being shot by his own men.

A standoff tainted with treason ends the appointment of Sir John Harvey as Royal Governor of Virginia.

And a day in history the U.S. Supreme Court would like to forget – how Virginia helped set the precedent of forced sterilization.

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