- Born Name: Floyd Phillips Gibbons
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Floyd Gibbons, Floyd Phillips Gibbons (1887-September 1939) was the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I. One of radios first news reporter and commentators he was famous for a fast talking delivery style. Floyd Gibbons lived a life of danger of which he often wrote and spoke.Gibbons started with the Tribune in 1907. He became well-known for covering the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916, and for reporting on the 1917 torpedoing of the British ship Laconia, on which he was a passenger.As a World War I correspondent at the Battle of Belleau Wood, France, Gibbons lost an eye after being hit by German gunfire while attempting to rescue an American soldier. In August 1918, Gibbons was given Frances greatest honor, the Croix de Guerre with Palm, for his valor on the field of battle. On June 21, 1941, Marine Corps League State Commandant Roland L. Young posthumously awarded Gibbons a gold medal, making him an honorary member of the Marine Corps. It was the first such civilian honor ever made in the history of the Marine Corps League.In the 1920s and 1930s, Gibbons was widely known as a radio commentator and narrator of newsreels, for which he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He also wrote a science fiction novel The Red Napoleon. In 1927 he wrote a biography of the Red Baron called The Red Knight of Germany.When Gibbons suggested that Frank Buck write about Bucks animal collecting adventures, Buck collaborated with Edward Anthony on Bring Em Back Alive, which became a bestseller in 1930.Gibbons died of a heart attack in September 1939 at his farm in Pennsylvania.In 1953 Gibbons brother Edward published a biography of Floyd titled Floyd Gibbons - Your Headline Hunter.In The Floyd Gibbons Story, a 1962 episode of The Untouchables, Gibbons was portrayed by Scott Brady.ReferencesFloyd Gibbons - Your Headline Hunter; Exposition Press, New York, 1953, a biography by his brother.The novel The Red Napoleon is a fictional novel, not a science fiction novel.External linksWikimedia Commons has media related to: Floyd GibbonsFloyd Gibbons at Belleau Wood Article condensed from Edwards book by Shelley Mitchell-Schaaf, Floyds great niece.Floyd Gibbons biography - Radio Days websiteGibbonss article on the sinking of the LaconiaPersondataNameGibbons, FloydAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birth1887Place of birthWashington, D.C., United StatesDate of death1939Place of deathPennsylvaniaRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_GibbonsCategories: 1887 births | 1939 deaths | American journalists | Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France)Hidden categories: Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadView sourceView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable version This page was last modified on 18 February 2011 at 06:46.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms 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