Geraldo Rivera Behind the Scenes with Michael Jackson

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Geraldo Rivera is currently host of the highly rated show "Geraldo at Large" on FOX News Channel. Rivera has received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, three national and seven local Emmys.

Previously, Rivera was a war correspondent at FOX News Channel, which he joined in November 2001. He was immediately stationed in Afghanistan to cover Operation Enduring Freedom and later in Bethlehem to cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Prior to that, he secured an exclusive interview with Michael Jackson on the evening before his trial for child molestations charges, and also covered the Iraqi elections from Baghdad.

Before becoming a member of the original cast of ABC's "Good Morning America," Rivera presented the first television broadcast of the infamous Abraham Zapruder film of the assassination of President John Kennedy as host of ABC's "Good Night America." He then began an eight-year association with ABC's "20/20" as an investigative reporter. One of his hour-long reports, "The Elvis Cover-Up" was for more than two decades "20/20's""highest rated show. In 1987, Geraldo began producing and hosting "The Geraldo Rivera Show" for 11 years.

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