album and today my guest on the program jon alpert. in the auto world wars fort and often one digital film and photographers sometimes start shooting before the soldiers today i'd like to introduce and i 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 to have met with the general. john till now heard is 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 he 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 bodie after the vietnam war and a few years later reported from to her own during the iran hostage crisis after the persian gulf war jon alpert was the only t.v. reporter to get out of the. rock with censored food which helped bring civilian deaths his report was cancelled hours before it was due to be an n.b.c