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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