Michael Elkins, a journalist known for his radio scoops during the 1967 Six-Day War, died over the weekend in Jerusalem at the age of 84. Elkins was the first to get the story that Israeli planes were destroying Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian air forces on the first day of the war, but CBS refused to air the news because it was not being reported elsewhere.
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