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| Born | (1918-08-26)August 26, 1918 Peekskill, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 11, 2020(2020-05-11) (aged 101) |
| Occupation | Writer |
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| Children | 11, includingMel andDonal |
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| Relatives | Milo Gibson (grandson) |
Hutton Peter Gibson (August 26, 1918 – May 11, 2020) was a writer onsedevacantism, World War II veteran, theJeopardy!grand champion for 1968, and the father of 11 children, one of whom is the actor and directorMel Gibson.[1]
Gibson was a critic both of the post-Vatican II Catholic Church and of thoseTraditionalist Catholics who reject sedevacantism, such as theSociety of Saint Pius X. He claimed that theSecond Vatican Council was "aMasonic plot backed by the Jews".[2][3]
Gibson was born inPeekskill, New York,[4] the son of businessman John Hutton Gibson (1884–1937) and Australian opera singerEva Mylott (1875–1920).[citation needed] His maternal grandparents were Irish immigrants to Australia, while his father, who was from a wealthytobacco-producing family from theAmerican South, had Irish, English, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry.[5][6][7][8] He was raised inChicago. 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 1967.[9] He graduated from high school early, at age 15, and ranked third in his class.[10]
According toWensley Clarkson's biography ofMel Gibson, Hutton Gibson studied for the priesthood in a Chicago seminary which was operated by theSociety of the Divine Word but he left the seminary because he considered themodernist 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 toNew Guinea or thePhilippines as amissionary.[10] Instead, he found work withWestern Union and theCivilian Conservation Corps.[10] He also contributed to and edited the newsletter "The Pointer" while he worked in Wisconsin for theCivilian Conservation Corps from 1938 to 1939.[11]
After serving with theU.S. Army as aSignal Corpsofficer at theBattle of Guadalcanal, Gibson married Irish-born Anne Patricia Reilly on May 1, 1944, at the Catholic parish church ofOur Lady of Good Counsel inBrooklyn, New York. They had ten children and adopted another one after their arrival in Australia. As of 2003, Gibson had 48 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.[10] 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.[10][12] From early 2006, he resided inWestmoreland County, Pennsylvania, nearPittsburgh[13] after moving from Australia to Houston, Texas, in 1999,[11] and toSummersville, West Virginia, in 2003.[14]
In the 1960s, Gibson worked forNew York Central Railroad. In the early morning hours of December 11, 1964, he slipped off a steel platform which was covered in oil and snow[10] 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 (equivalent to $1,310,000 in 2024) by the jury. Gibson paid his debts and attorney's fees and later that year, he relocated his family, first toIreland, then toAustralia.[15]
Gibson said in 2003 that the move to his mother's native country was undertaken because he believed that theAustralian Army would reject his oldest son for theAustralian Vietnam War draft, unlike the U.S. Army.[10] 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.[15][16]
At the October 1976 Annual General Meeting of the Latin Mass Society of Australia, Gibson resigned as secretary after loudly and continually claiming that theSee of Peter was vacant due toPope John XXIII's convention of theSecond Vatican Council, and accusing subsequent popes of therefore beinghereticalantipopes.[10] He later founded an organisation called the Alliance for Catholic Truth.[17]
In 1968, Gibson appeared on theArt Fleming-hosted version of the game showJeopardy! 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 use. He was invited back to appear in the 1968Tournament of Champions, where he became the year's grand champion,[18] winning slightly over one thousand dollars more, as well as a two-person cruise to theWest Indies.[15][19][20][21] Art Fleming observed on the October 18, 1968, episode that theJeopardy! staff had difficulty informing Gibson about his invitation, for Gibson had decamped with his family toCounty Tipperary, Ireland.[21]
Gibson later participated in many Australian quiz shows, includingBig Nine withAthol Guy andFord Superquiz withBert Newton.[22][23] In 1986,The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Gibson had recently won $100,000 and an automobile in a TV quiz program.[24]
Gibson was an outspoken critic of the Catholic Church‘s doctrine, leadership, and practice since theSecond Vatican Council. He disseminated his views in a quarterly newsletter calledThe War is Now! and self-published three collections of these periodicals:Is the Pope Catholic?,The Enemy is Here!, andThe Enemy is Still Here![11][25]
Gibson was especially critical ofPope John Paul II, whom he once described as "Garrulous Karolus the Koran-Kisser".[26] His allegation that the Pope kissed theQuran is corroborated by a FIDES News Service report of June 1, 1999, which quotes theChaldean CatholicPatriarch,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 toMuslims:
On May 14th I was received by the Pope, together with a delegation composed of theShi'iteimam of Khadummosque and theSunni president of the council of administration of the Iraqi Islamic Bank. There was also a representative of the Iraqi ministry of religion. ... At the end of the audience the Pope bowed to theMuslim holy book, theQu'ran, presented to him by the delegation, and he kissed it as a sign of respect. The photo of that gesture has been shown repeatedly on Iraqi television and it demonstrates that the Pope not only is aware of the suffering of the Iraqi people, but he also has great respect forIslam.[11]
Gibson also used his newsletter to argue againstFeeneyism.[citation needed] At the January 2004We The People conference, Gibson advocated that the states shouldsecede from theFederal government of the United States and theUnited States public debt should be abolished.[27]
One week before Mel Gibson'sThe Passion of the Christ (2004) was released in American film theaters, Hutton Gibson told radio talk show host Steve Feuerstein that theHolocaust wasfabricated and "mostly fictional".[28] He said that theJews had simply emigrated to other countries rather than having been killed, a view which observers described asHolocaust denial.[28][29] He claimed that census statistics prove there were moreJews in EuropeafterWorld War II than before.[30] Gibson said that certain Jews advocate a global religion andone world government.[28]
In his interview forThe New York Times Magazine article, Gibson dismissed historical accounts that six million Jews were exterminated:
"Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body," he said. "It takes twenty liters of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?" Across the table, Joye [Gibson's wife] suddenly looked up from her plate. ... She had kept quiet most of the day, so it was a surprise when she cheerfully piped in. "There weren't even that many Jews in all of Europe," she said."Anyway, there were more after the war than before," Hutton added. The entire catastrophe was manufactured, said Hutton, as part of an arrangement betweenHitler and "financiers" to move Jews out of Germany. Hitler "had this deal where he was supposed to make it rough on them so they would all get out and migrate to Israel because they needed people there to fight theArabs," he said.[26]
Gibson was further quoted as saying that theSecond Vatican Council was "aMasonic plot backed by the Jews"[2][3] and theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks were perpetrated by remote control: "Hutton flatly rejected thatAl Qaeda hijackers had anything to do with the attacks. 'Anybody can put out a passenger list,' he said".[2]
In the early 1990s, Gibson and Tom Costello hosted a video calledCatholics, Where Has Our Church Gone?.[31] It is critical of the changes made within theCatholic Church by theSecond Vatican Council and espouses theSiri thesis that in 1958, after the death ofPope Pius XII, the man originally elected pope was notAngelo Roncalli, but another cardinal, "probably CardinalSiri of Genoa" (a staunch conservative candidate and firstpapabile). Gibson stated that the white smoke that emanated from a chimney in theSistine Chapel to announce a new pope's election was done in error; black smoke signifying that thepapacy 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, asPope John XXIII convened theSecond Vatican Council.[31] 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-basedCorriere della Sera.[32]
A similar event happened in 1939; a confusing mixture of white and black smoke emanated from the Sistine Chapel chimney. In a note toVatican Radio, the secretary of thePapal conclave at the time, amonsignor named Santoro said that a new pope, Eugenio Pacelli, had been properly elected regardless of the color of the smoke. Pacelli took the namePius XII.[33]
Gibson endorsedRon Paul for president in the2008 United States Presidential Election.[34] In January 2010, he made an appearance on thefar-right-wing radio show,The Political Cesspool, to promote his views.[35] In August 2010, he made another appearance onThe Political Cesspool during which he made a widely discussed allegation thatPope Benedict XVI is "homosexual" and "half the people in theVatican arequeer". During the same interview, he also claimed that the Pope was aFreemason.[36]
In 2006, Gibson's foundation, The World Faith Foundation of California, which is funded by Mel Gibson, purchased an existing church structure in thePittsburgh suburb ofUnity, Pennsylvania, and used it to establish aTridentinesedevacantist congregation called St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Chapel.[37] 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 mismanaged its finances.[38]
Gibson died at a medical center inThousand Oaks, California, on May 11, 2020, at the age of 101.[1]
Mr. Nierob saidThe New York Times was a 'low priority' becauseThe Times Magazine had run an 'inaccurate' article in March in which Hutton Gibson, Mel Gibson's father and a prominent traditionalist Catholic author, was quoted as saying that the Vatican Council was 'a Masonic plot backed by the Jews' and the Holocaust was a charade. But in fact, neither Hutton nor Mel Gibson – nor anyone else – has contacted the magazine to challenge the accuracy of a single sentence in the article in the four months since its publication.
Glenn Petrone said the problems surfaced around Easter when Hutton Gibson and his wife, Joye, asked Bealko to produce documentation proving he was ordained in the Latin rite. When he couldn't, he was asked to leave, Petrone said. Bealko celebrated his last Mass on Sunday, she said.
My dad worked on the railways, and retrained as a computer programmer, back in the early days of it, after he'd injured himself.
Hutton Gibson appeared as a contestant (and was the champion for several weeks) on a show called "Ford Superquiz" in about 1983.
Apart from siring Australia's highest-paid movie star, he recently won $100,000, plus a luxurious car, in a TV quiz program.
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