Craig A. Gibson (1949 to 2024), formerly of Takoma Park, Maryland, left this earth on Thursday, September 26th, 2024, in Cedar Park, Texas. His wife of 29 years, Judlyne Lilly Gibson, was by his side.
Mr. Gibson was a long-time resident of Takoma Park while traveling the world as a “soundcatcher” for television network news operations like 60 Minutes on CBS and 20/20 on ABC. He worked with photographer and producer Paul and Holly Fine, catching the sounds in documentaries and stories such as “In the Killing Fields of America” with Mike Wallace, The Barbra Streisand interview, Ed Bradley talking to Sting about his music, and many other reports.
His audio work was awarded several times. The White House News Photographers Association honored Mr. Gibson’s work four times, in 1987, 1988, 1990 and 1991. He was also part of the crew that received the George Foster Peabody Award in 1983 for the documentary The Plane That Fell From The Sky.
All of those accomplishments started when Mr. Gibson was born in Neenah, Wisconsin in 1949. His parents, Merlin and Dorothy Gibson, now deceased, soon gave him a brother, Keith Gibson, who passed in February of this year.
Craig finished high school in Falls Church, Va., (George Marshall High) and started college at Ole Miss before a “down the embankment over the fence” car accident brought him back home to Falls Church. That’s when his career as a “soundcatcher” started. First with a job as a messenger at WTTG-TV Channel 5 and later as a soundman for the crews at the station.
He loved the job and later, his freelance career that took him all over the world.
He is remembered with love by his wife, Judlyne Lilly Gibson, and his children, Ty Gibson and Caitlin Gibson; his nieces and nephews, Paige Gibson Eschler, Kyle Gibson, and Anissa Turner; and various other relatives, friends, and colleagues.
Mr. Gibson retired to Cedar Park, Texas, in 2006 after the effects of Multiple Sclerosis prevented him from continuing to “run and gun”. He was 75 years old.