On March 11, 2005 Brian Nichols shoots and kills three people inside an Atlanta courthouse. I choose this day to ask the Birmingham Courthouse’s security manager for permission to film inside his building. "Whatever you say, don’t say ‘shoot’," I tell myself. "Use ‘film’ instead." Two minutes, three ‘shoots’ and one awkward silence later, I had my permission.

Want to guess the date I had to call to schedule re-shoots?

Try September 11^th.

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