After three years with the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, he left the paper shortly after taking the prize-winning picture and returned to Hawaii. He joined KGMB-TV in 1966 and stayed with it 30 years, retiring in late September 1996 after a heart attack. Mews shot the only close-up video of the wreckage. It was the day's top national story, and CBS played it big. Network management later called KGMB with congratulations.
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