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28 Facts About Hutton Gibson

1.

Hutton Gibson's mother died when he was two years old and his father died when he was nineteen.

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Hutton Gibson graduated from high school early, at age 15, and ranked third in his class.

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However, in 2003, Hutton Gibson stated that he really left the seminary because he did not want to be sent to New Guinea or the Philippines as a missionary.

4.

Hutton Gibson contributed to and edited the newsletter "The Pointer" while he worked in Wisconsin for the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1938 to 1939.

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In January 2002, he married Teddy Joye Hicks, but in 2012 Hutton Gibson filed for divorce due to irreconcilable differences.

6.

Seven days later, Hutton Gibson was awarded $145,000 by the jury.

7.

Hutton Gibson paid his debts and attorney's fees and later that year, he relocated his family, first to Ireland, then to Australia.

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Hutton Gibson said in 2003 that the move to his mother's native country was undertaken because he believed that the Australian Army would reject his oldest son for the Australian Vietnam War draft, unlike the American military.

9.

Hutton Gibson was encouraged to become a computer programmer after IQ testing placed him in the genius range.

10.

Hutton Gibson later founded an organisation called the Alliance for Catholic Truth.

11.

Hutton Gibson won $4,680 and retired undefeated after five shows, in accordance with the rules of the show then in use.

12.

Hutton Gibson 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 West Indies.

13.

Hutton Gibson later participated in many Australian quiz shows, including Big Nine with Athol Guy and Ford Superquiz with Bert Newton.

14.

In 1986, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Hutton Gibson had recently won $100,000 and an automobile in a TV quiz program.

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Hutton Gibson was an outspoken critic of the Catholic Church's doctrine, leadership, and practice since the Second Vatican Council.

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Hutton Gibson was especially critical of Pope John Paul II, whom he once described as "Garrulous Karolus the Koran-Kisser".

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At the January 2004 We The People conference, Hutton Gibson advocated that the states should secede from the Federal government of the United States and the United States public debt should be abolished.

18.

One week before Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ was released in American film theaters, Hutton Gibson told radio talk show host Steve Feuerstein that the Holocaust was fabricated and "mostly fictional".

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Hutton Gibson said that the Jews had simply emigrated to other countries rather than having been killed, a view which observers described as Holocaust denial.

20.

Hutton Gibson claimed that census statistics prove that there were more Jews in Europe after World War II than before.

21.

Hutton Gibson said that certain Jews advocate a global religion and one world government.

22.

Hutton Gibson had kept quiet most of the day, so it was a surprise when she cheerfully piped in.

23.

Hutton Gibson stated that the white smoke that emanated from a chimney in the Sistine Chapel to announce a new pope's election was done in error; black smoke signifying that the papacy was still vacant was quickly created, and the public was not informed of the reason for the initial white smoke.

24.

Hutton Gibson 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".

25.

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 Corriere della Sera.

26.

Hutton Gibson endorsed Ron Paul for president in the 2008 United States Presidential Election.

27.

In 2010, at the age of 92, Hutton Gibson went through stem cell therapy.

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Hutton Gibson died at a medical center in Thousand Oaks, California, on May 11,2020, at the age of 101.