Month: February 2016

  • Remembering Bradley

    Word has come that Bradley Smith, whom we all know, has died after a very long struggle with cancer. I have been asked to write a few words as part of a Memorial Collection. I remember Bradley winging his way from California to Toronto to put in an appearance as a defense witness at my…

  • Bradley Smith

    My old friend Bradley has left us. During his lifetime I could not hide my strong liking for him. I admired him but, out of discretion, I dared not show or say it to him very much. Now that he is no longer of this world I can go ahead and declare outright that, amongst…

  • A Life That Made a Difference

    Bradley Smith's letter to Arthur Butz of January 1980 (click to open it as a PDF file) I first learned of Bradley Smith when he wrote me in January 1980. He had just read my book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century and it "shook [his] faith in a story [he had] believed unquestioningly for…

  • Bradley in Baja

    There is a lot I can say about Bradley… and I can start with how I knew about him for years before I ever met him. About 20 years ago, a group of friends and I put together a weekly publication that later came to be one of the main weekly papers in our little…

  • Losing a Wise Friend

    I met Bradley the first time in September 1999 during David Irving’s Real History Conference in Cincinnati, where we both presented papers to Irving’s audience. I did not interact much with him during that conference. That changed, however, after I had to leave England in a hurry just two months later due to a veritable…

  • Remembering Bradley R. Smith

    On Thursday evening, 18 February 2016, I glanced at my email on my phone. The subject of a newly received message struck me like a lightning bolt. “Bradley RIP” was all it said. It wasn’t that it was entirely unexpected. Bradley had been ill for many years, fighting off heart ailments, cancer, and even a…

  • Libertarian Free Spirit Was Masterful Revisionist Writer and Activist

    Bradley Reed Smith, a pioneer of revisionist history journalism, has died at the age of 86. I came to know Bradley when he worked for me when I served as assistant director of the Institute for Historical Review (IHR) in Torrance California in 1985. In addition to being a first-class writer, he was an extraordinary human being….

  • Farewell to an Optimist

    I have several good friends who work in upper management at various TV networks. It’s easy to mock and deride network execs, because most TV shows are straight-out lousy. But I’ve always found a certain nobility in the profession, because every year, like clockwork, these poor bastards have to announce the coming season’s new shows,…

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