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Floyd Phillips Gibbons (July 16, 1887 – September 23, 1939) was the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I. One of radio's first news reporters 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. ==Career== Gibbons was born in Washington, D.C., the first of five children of Edward Thomas Gibbons and Emma Theresa Phillips. After he was expelled from Georgetown University, it began as a police reporter on the ' In 1927 he wrote a biography of the Red Baron called ''The Red Knight of Germany''. He also wrote the speculative fiction novel ''The Red Napoleon'' in 1929. Gibbons was the narrator for the documentary film ''With Byrd at the South Pole'' (1930). In 1929, he had his own half-hour radio program heard Wednesday nights on the NBC Red Network at 10:30. Competition from Paul Whiteman's show on CBS Radio, however, brought Gibbons' show to an end by March 1930. When Gibbons suggested that Frank Buck write about Buck's 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 Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. In "The Floyd Gibbons Story", a 1962 episode of ''The Untouchables'', Gibbons was portrayed by Scott Brady. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Floyd Gibbons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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