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, but keeps contributing.
Jim Rizoli, for the League of Extraordinary Revisionists, interviews Bradley R. Smith, his 5th interview in the series.
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1997
Following is a partial list of revisionist materials posted on CODOHWeb which I can send you in printed form. It costs about ten cents per printed page, plus postage and handling, to get them to you. Your contribution over and above that amount, if possible, is much appreciated. Professor Author Butz Challenged over his Internet…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1997
If Sheldon Epstein is to be believed, he is the first academic in history to be fired for “believing” in the Holocaust. But, as the Duke of Wellington is supposed to have said when asked on a London street if he was “Mr. Jones,” if you believe that, you’ll believe anything. Epstein was an adjunct…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1997
In last issue’s “Revisionism Rampant ‘round the Globe,” which we aim to make a periodical update on what revisionist individuals and groups are accomplishing and enduring worldwide, we stated that the Verlag der Freunde, a Berlin-based outfit, published Nazi materials, including an SS song book. On December 11, we received a letter from Andreas Roehler,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1997
Recently our Japanese friend. Aiji Kimura (see, most recently, SR 37, November 1996), sent us a copy of the first issue of his newsletter, called (in English) Journal for Historical Review. We can’t read Japanese, and thus can’t decipher the newsletter—all the more frustrating because its first page includes a headline in English: “Rife with…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1997
Conrad Grieb is working on a story about the last poison gassing of an American citizen. David Lawson was executed on June 15, 1994 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lawson didn’t want to die and refused to cooperate with his executioners. When the cyanide was released in his execution chamber Lawson refused to breathe in deeply…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1997
Family Matters If you have been a reader of this Report since December 1995. and/or before, it may have crossed your mind that this season you did not receive my special holiday roundup of the Smith family. Maybe it crossed your mind to think I did send you one but that it got lost in…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1996
Following is a partial list of the revisionist materials posted on CODOHWeb which I can send you in printed form. It costs about ten cents per printed page, plus postage and handling, to get it to you. Your contribution over and above that amount, if possible, is much appreciated. The Controversy about the Extermination of…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1996
David Irving has threatened to sue Australian Prime Minister John Howard for calling him a “crackpot historian” and a criminal (due to his arrests for revisionism) on November 8th. Irving was denied a visa by Australian authorities a few days before. … The Adelaide Institute (P.O. Box 3300, Norwood, 5067 Australia) reports that two leading…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1996
In the last two issues of SR, we reported on the emergence of a new player in the “watchdog” industry, a Web site that called itself (somewhat grandiloquently) “The Harvard Law School Library's Guide to Hate Groups on the Internet.” The “Guide” was of particular relevance, of course, because its listings included the Committee for…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1996
Yet another in the interminable round of prosecutions of Professor Robert Faurisson was suddenly halted on November 15 when Faurisson and his attorney, Eric Delcroix, challenged the constitutionality of France's repressive Loi Gayssot, which makes it a crime to dispute the historicity of the Nazi Holocaust. In an appeal that will be considered by France's…
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