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.
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…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1996
Willis Carto The story on page one about the Carto-IHR stand-off in the Vista courtroom is hard news. There’s another side to the story that I suppose we can call soft news. The first week in November I had some business to take care of in Southern California and the next day, Tuesday the 5th,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1996
Following is a partial list of the revisionist materials posted on CODOHWeb over the last 30 days, as well as a couple which were published earlier and have been of exceptional interest. If you’re on-line, you can download them at no cost. If you are not on-line, we make print-outs of every Web article, column…
By Bradley R. Smith, Richard A. Widmann ∙ November 1, 1996
Correspondence. I have a pile of correspondence to attend to that's about a foot high. The truth of the matter is that, while I want to hear from you, and while I read every letter that crosses my desk, I am unable to answer your letters unless they pertain to business of the utmost importance…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1996
In SR36 I reported how, on the Internet, the Harvard Law Library is sponsoring what it calls “A Guide to Hate on the Net.” and has listed CODOHWeb as a “hate” site (it still doesn't list the JDL site as a hate site). I submitted an advertisement to the Harvard Crimson asking students to go…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1996
In July I announced that Smith’s On-Line Review would be the first revisionist quarterly to appear on the Internet. It was to appear the first week in September. I couldn’t do it by deadline but I thought I was close so I announced that SOR was scheduled to appear by the end of September. Some…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1996
Aiji Kimura is a free-lance journalist who formerly worked for the Japan Television Company. He has shown great energy in researching and bringing the revisionist case against the establishment Holocaust story to his fellow Japanese. He sends this backgrounder on the rise of revisionism in Japan, and thanks us for sending him and Dr. Nishioka…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1996
When I saw the above headline to an opinion piece in the free press, a University of Chicago student monthly tabloid, my attention became fixed. Written by one Orloff Potemkin, it was the only such piece I had (or have) seen from the campus press. The columnist was not identified as a student or member…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1996
The name of the game is names. Without an increasing number of subscribers to Smith’s Report, many of whom become contributors as well, I’m a dead duck. I want to thank those of you who responded to my last request for names by sending me several good lists over the summer. I’m beginning to get…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1996
(Following is a partial list of the revisionist materials posted on CODOHWeb over the last 30 days, any of which I will send you in return for your contribution.) 9/29/96 David Irving's ACTION REPORT #10, German language (under construction.) Informationen für die Spender des Fonds. Herausgegeben von David Irvings weltweiten Rechtsverteidigungsfonds DIFF. 9/24/96 Swindler's Mist:…
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