welcome to the spotlight big interview show on our two album and today my guest on the program is jon alpert. in the auto world wars are fought and often one digital film and photographers sometimes start shooting before the soldiers today i'd like to introduce someone who was in the middle of most major conflicts of the twentieth century mr jonathan documentary filmmaker winner fifteen emmy awards and one of the best known ever met with a john. johnson now has one of the biggest names in american journalism and documentary filmmaking since he worked in the early seventy's he's won fifteen emmys and for columbia to point towards your reported extensively from hot spots around the globe for nature the middle east and latin america he was the first american t.v. reporter to enter coming boadicea after the vietnam war and a few years later reported from to her son during the iran hostage crisis after the persian gulf war john albert was the only t.v. reporter to get out of iraq with food which covering civilian deaths he's reported was cancelled three hours before it was due to be aired on n.b.