Hutton Gibson | |
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Born |
Hutton Peter Gibson August 26, 1918 Peekskill, New York, United States |
Residence | Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Writer |
Home town | Chicago, Illinois |
Spouse(s) | Anne Patricia Reilly (1944–1990; her death) Joye Gibson (2002–2013; divorced) |
Children | 11; including Mel Gibson |
Hutton Peter Gibson (born August 26, 1918) is an American writer on Sedevacantism, a World War II veteran, the 1968 Jeopardy! grand champion and the father of 11 children, one of whom is the actor and director Mel Gibson.
Gibson is an outspoken critic, both of the post-Vatican II Roman Catholic Church and of those Traditionalist Catholics, like the Society of Saint Pius X, who reject Sedevacantism. Gibson is also a proponent of various conspiracy theories. In a 2003 interview he questioned how the Nazis could have disposed of six million bodies during the Holocaust and claimed that the September 11, 2001 attacks were perpetrated by remote control. He has also been quoted as saying the Second Vatican Council was "a Masonic plot backed by the Jews".
Hutton "Red" Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, and is the son of businessman John Hutton Gibson (1884–1933) and Australian opera singer Eva Mylott (1875–1920). His maternal grandparents were Irish immigrants to Australia, while his father, from a wealthy tobacco-producing family from the American South, had Irish, English, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. He was raised in Chicago, Illinois. Gibson's mother died when he was two years old and his father died when he was fifteen. Gibson supported his younger brother, Alexis, who died in his early twenties. Gibson graduated from high school early, at age 15, and ranked third in his class.