Floyd Gibbons
Toronto Daily Star, 18 May 1933
Floyd Gibbons (1887-1939) was a news reporter and commentator who became famous for his war correspondence during the First World War. He lost an eye in June 1918 after being hit by gunfire when trying to rescue an American Marine.
After the war, he was the head of the Chicago Tribune's foreign service and director of its European office before being fired in 1926. After this, he wrote novels, narrated newsreels, and became a radio commentator for NBC.
In the late 1930s, shortly before his death from a heart attack, Gibbons was the narrator for a series of "Your True Adventure" short films. YouTube has one of them, Alibi Mark, which was produced in 1937. There is also an excerpt from The Turn of The Tide, produced in 1931, which was originally intended to be part of a series of films about World War I.
Created May 9, 2025.