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Hutton Peter Gibson (August 26, 1918 – May 11, 2020) was an American writer on
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, a World War II veteran, the 1968 ''
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and the father of 11 children, one of whom is the actor and director
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. Gibson was an outspoken critic both of the post- Vatican II Roman Catholic Church and of those
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s who reject sedevacantism, such as the
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. In a 2003 interview, he engaged in
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, wondering how the Nazis could have disposed of six million bodies during the
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, and claimed that the
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were perpetrated by remote control. He was also quoted as saying that the
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was "a Masonic plot backed by the Jews".


Early life and family

Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the son of businessman John Hutton Gibson (1884–1937) and Australian opera singer
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(1875–1920). His maternal grandparents were Irish emigrants to Australia, while his father, who was from a wealthy
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-producing family from the
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, had Irish, English, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. He was raised in
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. His mother died when he was two years old and his father died when he was nineteen. Gibson supported his younger brother, Alexis, who died in his early twenties. He graduated from high school early, at age 15, and ranked third in his class. According to
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's biography of
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, Hutton Gibson studied for the priesthood in a Chicago seminary which was operated by the
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but he left the seminary because he considered the modernist theological doctrines which were being taught there disgusting. However, in 2003, Gibson stated that he really left the seminary because he did not want to be sent to
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or the
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as a
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. Instead, he found work with
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and the
Civilian Conservation Corps The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was a major part of ...
. He also contributed to and edited the newsletter "The Pointer" while he worked in Wisconsin for the
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from 1938–39. After serving with the
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at the Battle of Guadalcanal, Gibson married Irish-born Anne Patricia Reilly on May 1, 1944, at the Catholic parish church of Our Lady of Good Counsel in
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. They had ten children and adopted another one after their arrival in Australia. As of 2003, Gibson had 48 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. His wife died in December 1990. In January 2002, he married Teddy Joye Hicks, but in 2012 Gibson filed for divorce due to irreconcilable differences. From early 2006, he resided in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania near
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after moving from Australia to Houston, Texas, in 1999, and to Summersville, West Virginia, in 2003.


Railroad lawsuit and move to Australia

In the 1960s, Gibson worked for
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. In the early morning hours of December 11, 1964, he slipped off a steel platform which was covered in oil and snow and injured his back. A work injury lawsuit followed and finally reached court on February 7, 1968. Seven days later, Gibson was awarded $145,000 by the jury. Gibson paid his debts and attorney's fees and later that year, he relocated his family, first to
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, then to
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. Gibson said in 2003 that the move to his mother's native country was undertaken because he believed that the
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would reject his oldest son for the Australian Vietnam War draft, unlike the American military. Because of his back injuries, Gibson sought retraining in a new career. He was encouraged to become a computer programmer after IQ testing placed him in the genius range. Gibson was ousted as secretary of the Latin Mass Society of Australia after becoming increasingly vocal in expressing the allegation that the
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is vacant due to
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, who convened the
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, and accusing subsequent popes of being heretical
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s.


Quiz show contestant

In 1968, Gibson appeared on the
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-hosted version of the game show ''
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'' as "Red Gibson, a railroad brakeman from South Ozone Park, New York". Gibson won $4,680 and retired undefeated after five shows, in accordance with the rules of the show then in force. He was invited back to appear in the 1968 Tournament of Champions, where he became the year's grand champion, winning slightly over one thousand dollars more, as well as a two-person cruise to the
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.Many episodes of the
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–era of ''
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'' do not survive. The shows featuring Hutton "Red" Gibson are among these lost episodes. However, records indicating Gibson's appearances may be found in the NBC Master Books daily broadcast log, available on microfilm at the
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Motion Picture and Television Reading Room. A summary of those records may be foun
here
Art Fleming observed on the October 18, 1968, episode that the ''Jeopardy!'' staff had had difficulty informing Gibson about his invitation as Gibson had decamped with his family to
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, Ireland. Gibson later participated in many Australian quiz shows, including ''Big Nine'' with
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and ''Ford Superquiz'' with Bert Newton. In 1986, ''
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'' reported that Gibson had recently won $100,000 and an automobile in a TV quiz program.


Beliefs

Gibson was an outspoken critic of the modern post- conciliar Catholic Church and a conspiracy theorist. He disseminated his views in a quarterly newsletter called ''The War is Now!'' and self-published three collections of these periodicals: ''Is the Pope Catholic?'', ''The Enemy is Here!'', and ''The Enemy is Still Here!'' Gibson was especially critical of
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, whom he once described as "Garrulous Karolus the Koran-Kisser". His allegation that the Pope kissed the
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is corroborated by a FIDES News Service report of June 1, 1999, which quotes the
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, Raphael I Bidawid, as having confirmed to the news service that he was personally present when John Paul II kissed the text, which is sacred to
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s: Gibson also used his newsletter to argue against
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. At the January 2004,
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conference, Gibson advocated that the states should secede from the
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and the United States public debt should be abolished. One week before Mel Gibson's '' The Passion of the Christ'' (2004) was released in American film theaters, Hutton Gibson told radio talk show host Steve Feuerstein that the
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was fabricated and "mostly fictional".Archived copy of Partial Transcript Of The Steve Feuerstein Radio Interview With Hutton Gibson
Movie City News; March 3, 2004
He said that the Jews had simply emigrated to other countries rather than having been killed, a view which observers described as
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. He claimed that census statistics prove that there were more
Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
in Europe ''after''
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than before. Gibson said that certain
Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
advocate a global religion and
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. In his interview for ''
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'' article, Gibson dismissed historical accounts that six million Jews were exterminated: Gibson was further quoted as saying that the
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was "a Masonic plot backed by the Jews" and the
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were perpetrated by remote control: "Hutton flatly rejected that Al Qaeda hijackers had anything to do with the attacks. 'Anybody can put out a passenger list,' he said". In the early 1990s, Gibson and Tom Costello hosted a video called ''Catholics, Where Has Our Church Gone?''. It is critical of the changes made within the
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by the
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and espouses the
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that in 1958, after the death of
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, the man originally elected pope was not
Angelo Roncalli Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 19 ...
, but another cardinal, "probably Cardinal Siri of Genoa" (a staunch conservative candidate and first papabile). Gibson stated that the white smoke which emanated from a chimney in the Sistine Chapel to announce a new pope's election was done in error; black smoke signifying that the
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was still vacant was quickly created and the public was not informed of the reason for the initial white smoke. A still photograph of a newspaper story about this event is shown. "Had our church gone up in smoke"? asked Gibson. He stated that the new pope was forced to resign under duress and two days later, the "modernist Roncalli" was elected pope and took the name "John XXIII". In 1962, Roncalli, as
Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 19 ...
convened the
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. In 2006, Hutton Gibson reversed his position on the Siri thesis, asserting that this theory was based on a mistranslation of an article written on October 27, 1958, by Silvio Negro for the evening edition of the Milan-based ''
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''. A similar event happened in 1939; in that case a confusing mixture of white and black smoke emanated from the Sistine Chapel chimney. In a note to Vatican Radio, the secretary of the
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at the time, a
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named Santoro said that a new pope, Eugenio Pacelli, had been properly elected regardless of the color of the smoke. Pacelli took the name
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. Gibson endorsed
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for president in the
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. In January 2010, he made an appearance on the far-right-wing radio show, ''
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'', to promote his views. In August 2010, he made another appearance on ''The Political Cesspool'' during which he made a widely discussed allegation that
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is "
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" and "half the people in the Vatican are
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". During the same interview, he also claimed that the Pope was a
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.


Local congregation support

In 2006, Gibson's foundation, The World Faith Foundation of California, which is funded by Mel Gibson, purchased an existing church structure in the
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suburb of Unity, Pennsylvania, and used it to establish a Tridentine sedevacantist congregation called St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Chapel. Rev. Leonard Bealko, purportedly a former Roman Catholic priest who had left the church voluntarily in 1986, was appointed pastor. By mid-2007, Gibson and his fellow congregants had dismissed Bealko and dissolved the congregation amid charges that Bealko had misrepresented his credentials and mishandled its finances.


Death

Gibson died at a medical center in
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at the age of 101.


Books

* ''Is the Pope Catholic?: Paul VI's Legacy: Catholicism?'' (1978) * ''Time Out of Mind'' (1983) * ''The Enemy is Here!'' (1994) * ''The Enemy is Still Here!'' (2003)


References


External links

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