Jon Else
Jon Else, series producer and cinematographer for Eyes on the Prize, has produced and directed many award-winning documentaries, including The Day After Trinity and Cadillac Desert. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and an Emmy Award-winner, he is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. His new book is True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement.
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