{{Short description|American journalist (1933–2009)}} {{Infobox writer | name = Sidney Zion | image = Sidney Zion, NYC.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = Zion in 1988 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1933|11|14}} | birth_place = Passaic, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2009|8|2|1933|11|14}} | death_place = New York, New York, U.S. | resting_place = | occupation = Journalist | language = | nationality = American | citizenship = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | education = | alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania<br>Yale Law School | period = | genre = <!-- or: | genres = --> | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | movement = | notable_works = | spouse = Elsa H. Zion | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = Libby Zion | relatives = | awards = | signature = | years_active = | module = }} '''Sidney E. Zion''' (November 14, 1933 – August 2, 2009) was an American writer. His works include ''Markers'', ''Begin from Beginning'', ''Read All about It'', ''Trust Your Mother but Cut the Cards'' (collections of his columns), ''Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob'' and ''Markers'' (a novel). He co-authored ''The Autobiography of Roy Cohn''. He also was a co-founder and co-editor of ''Scanlan's Monthly'' magazine.
==Early life and education== Zion graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School.
== Career == After graduating university, Zion worked as a trial lawyer until becoming Assistant US Attorney for New Jersey in 1961. He then turned to journalism and writing novels. He worked for various New York publications, including ''The New York Times'', ''New York Daily News'', ''New York Post'' and ''New York Magazine''.
In 1971, 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. It detailed the Johnson Administration's deceit in Vietnam, and at that time was being published by the ''Times'' and ''The Washington Post''. Zion, who was not affiliated with any news organization at the time, made the revelation on a popular New York City radio show.<ref>{{cite news |last=McFadden |first=Robert D. |author-link=Robert D. McFadden |date=August 3, 2009 |title=Sidney Zion, Writer Who Crusaded to Reduce Doctors' Hours, Dies at 75 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/nyregion/03zion.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
He owned a steakhouse during the early 1980s called ''Broadway Joe''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Krebs |first=Albin |last2=Thomas |first2=Robert Mcg. |author-link2=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |name-list-style=and |date=28 September 1981 |title=NOTES ON PEOPLE; Unscheduled Songs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/28/nyregion/notes-on-people-unscheduled-songs.html |access-date=26 June 2017 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> It was located on West 46th Street.<ref>{{cite web |date=2 March 2014 |title=Broadway Joe closed, "police-themed" bar inbound |url=http://hellskitsch.com/2014/03/broadway-joe-closed |access-date=26 June 2017 |publisher=Hell's Kitch}}</ref>
== Personal life == Zion was married to Elsa H. Zion, until her death in 2005;<ref name=":0">{{cite news |date=March 5, 2005 |title=Elsa Zion, 70; Helped Cut Doctor Workloads |work=The New York Times}}</ref> their daughter, Libby Zion, died at age 18 in New York Hospital in 1984. Her death and the subsequent investigation and trial led to improvements in hospital residents' working conditions.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="obit">{{cite news |date=March 6, 1984 |title=Libby Zion |work=The New York Times}}</ref> Sidney Zion died in 2009 after a brief battle with cancer.<ref>{{cite news |first= Jane H.|last= Furse|title= New York journalist Sidney Zion dies |url= http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/08/03/2009-08-03_new_york_journalist_sid_zion_dies_at_75.html|work=New York Daily News |date=August 3, 2009 |access-date=2009-08-03 }}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|2}}
==External links== * [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112400985.html Washington Post report] * [http://www.nyc-plus.com/nyc21/deadlinesatdawnthemany.html "Deadlines at dawn: The many lives of Sidney Zion," Thrive, February 2007] * Zion interviewed for the Fox documentary film ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhXsxbZxLlw Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob]'' (1994).
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