[5] Gibbons attended Gonzaga College High School, and later studied law at Georgetown University, from which he was expelled.

[4] While working for the Tribune in 1910, he was arrested for cutting a telegraph line in Winter, Wisconsin to prevent other newspapers from reporting a story first.

[2] He became a London correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in 1917 and reported on the 1917 torpedoing of the British ship RMS Laconia, on which he was a passenger.

[8] Gibbons lost an eye after being hit by German gunfire at Château-Thierry in June 1918 while attempting to rescue an American marine.

[2][citation needed] In 1918-1927 he was the chief of the Chicago Tribune's foreign service, and director of the paper's European office.

[9] He narrated Vitaphone's "Your True Adventures" series of short films, which began as a radio program in which Gibbons paid twenty-five dollars for the best story submitted by a listener.

[12]: 62–63  Gibbons describes his villain as taking a series of white female lovers and encouraging his non-white soldiers to do the same.

Each recreates a “heart stopping” event with actors and often presenting the real person behind the story in the final scene, introduced by Gibbons himself.

Earlier, he hosted two other short films titled The Great Decision (about Woodrow Wilson) (released August 27, 1931) and Turn Of The Tide (September 14).