1. Sidney Zion's works include Markers, Begin from Beginning, Read All about It, Trust Your Mother but Cut the Cards, Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob and Markers.
11 Facts About Sidney Zion
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Sidney Zion was a co-founder and co-editor of Scanlan's Monthly magazine.
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Sidney Zion worked for various New York publications, including The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post and New York Magazine.
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In 1971, Sidney Zion revealed that Daniel Ellsberg was the source of the Pentagon Papers, the classified study on the history of United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
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Sidney Zion, who was not affiliated with any news organization at the time, made the revelation on a popular New York City radio show.
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Many journalists regarded his disclosure of Ellsberg's identity as a breach of professional ethics, and Sidney Zion said he was considered a "pariah" by journalism colleagues for several years afterward.
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Sidney Zion was a recipient of the Ben Hecht Journalism Award.
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Sidney Zion was married to Elsa H Zion; their daughter, Libby Zion, died at age 18 in New York Hospital.
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Sidney Zion died in 2009 after a brief battle with cancer.
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Sidney Zion owned a steakhouse during the early 1980s called Broadway Joe that catered to theater people.
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Sidney Zion served on the Board of Directors of The Players in New York City, fighting anti-smoking laws passed during the Bloomberg Administration, believing those laws to be unconstitutional.