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Editorial

By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 15, 1993

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What's this? Another new format for Smith's Report? Can't he make up his mind? I'm trying to. Last week I finished issue 15 of the newsletter in its regular format. Size: 81/2 x 11. Number of pages: 8. Folded into a #10 envelope. It's a job that should take three or four days from start to finish. I worked on it off and on for three weeks. Maybe four. I never did get it right. I'm too old and too cranky to work on a four-day project the best part of a month and have it come out not so good anyway. I decided I would do the next issue of the newsletter in a format I've been thinking about for some time. As a “booklet.”

The more I thought about it, the hotter my brain got, until I said, what the hell, I'm going to do issue 15 itself, this issue, as a booklet. I'll use up another week or two straightening out the details. When you're hot, you're hot, and time and money mean nothing. I like the way these little booklets fit in my hand. I like the way I can slip them onto a bookshelf between real books, and how they look like they almost belong. I like the way I can visualize the layout for a page this size. It's smaller, it's simpler, it's handier. It's the way I need things to be in real life.

So Smith's Report, issue 15, is in a new, longer format. I intend to get it on to schedule. I will have more news in it. Among the knowledgeable, it's widely believed that, when you're doing a newsletter, it's a good idea for it to be newsy. Of course, I'm going to do the news the way I do it, so SR isn't going to be quite like any other newsletter you read. I suppose we'll all just have to live with that.

—Bradley R. Smith
Editor and Publisher

  • Bradley R. Smith

    Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989, Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014. He passed away on his 86th birthday, February 18, 2016. Read a series of obituaries here.

Bibliographic information about this document: Smith's Report, no. 15 + 16, Summer 1993, inside front cover
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