a docudrama with Geoffrey Cowan, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers . That year it aired on National Public Radio, performed by Ed Asner and Marsha Mason. The play won the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Gold Award for best live entertainment program on public radio. Top Secret still tours colleges nationwide as a production of LA Theatre Works. Death On November 28, 2004, Leroy Aarons died of cancer. He was 70 years old. At the time of his death, Aarons was working on another play, Night Nurse, about South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, for which he and his life partner of 24 years, Joshua Boneh, had spent a month in South Africa doing research. An actor and producer in Berkeley, California performed it as a work-in-progress in Mill Valley. The play has not yet been completed. Notes External links Roy Aarons Official Website Prayers for Bobby Top Secret: Battle for the Pentagon Papers Monticello ASNE NLGJA Maynard Institute PFLAG Annenberg School for Communication Annenberg Sexual Orientation Issues in the News Program NLGJA press release announcing Aarons' death Maynard Institute announcement of Aarons' death NPR tribute to Aarons NLGJA Hall of Fame Bio 1933 births 2004 deaths American editors Deaths from cancer in New York (state) American LGBT dramatists and playwrights American LGBT journalists Writers from the Bronx United States Navy officers Gay dramatists and playwrights Gay journalists 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights American male dramatists and playwrights Gay Jews LGBT people from New York (state) Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers American gay writers American people of Latvian-Jewish descent American LGBT military personnel Gay military personnel Jewish American military personnel Brown University alumni 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews 20th-century American LGBT people 21st-century American LGBT people