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 ∙ June 1, 1996
Nothing in this business is more important than names — names of individuals who are interested in revisionism and intellectual freedom. If you have the names and addresses of individuals you have reason to believe might want to know about Smith’s Report and read about the work we are doing, I would very much appreciate…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1996
Talk radio is bigger than ever. It plays a more significant role in public discourse than anyone imagined it would only a few short years ago. I used to do a lot of radio myself. My “media project” was the first revisionist activist work that reached broad regional and even national audiences in America. By…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1996
On the morning of 6 May a few of us received an e-mail message from Professor Arthur Butz announcing that if poets can do it and plumbers and nurses and monkeys can do it, if cats and fish and birds and even plants can do it, he could do it, and he had. He had…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1996
As is clear from David Irving's letter (above). Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel has resumed his attacks on revisionists (perhaps someone showed him a copy of Smith’s Report No. 31, which exposed his hypocrisy in pressing for the rehabilitation of the German Carl von Ossietzky while ignoring the current plight of Israeli Mordechai Vanunu). Careful…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1996
While Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust hasn’t shamed any New York publisher into bringing out David Irving's (de facto) banned Goebbels just yet, CODOH's ongoing campaign against the book's suppression has begun to bring results. The most visible among them, so far, has been an astonishing column in a national magazine advocating both…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 1996
(Please remit about ten cents per page – plus the most generous contribution you can make over that amount.) David Irving. Introduction to Goebbels, Mastermind of the Third Reich. 7pp. This is the intro to the book suppressed by St. Martin’s under pressure from various Jewish lobbies. Andrew Allen. Aerial Photo Surveillance of Auschwitz. 3pp….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 1996
Northwestern University. The Daily Northwestern reports (12 April) that “Holocaust educator” Scott Fishweicher spoke to a “small group” (NU’s Students Helping to Organize Awareness of the Holocaust [SHAH]) to lament the “widespread outcry” caused by ads placed by “Noted revisionist Bradly [sic] Smith….” “Fishweicher showed a ’48 Hours’ video illustrating the controversy of revisionism on…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 1996
David Cole Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper, the remarkable video filmed at Auschwitz by David Cole, is circulating in all the right places. Georgia House of Representatives. Thank you for the [David Cole] video. It does raise some valid and interesting points. Have you considered court action to get the video aired? — Alvin L. Barth,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 1996
“Former communist Roger Garaudy converts to revisionism” [L'ancien communiste Roger Garaudy se convertit au révisonnisme]. Such was the headline bannering Christiane Chombeau's January 31st article in Le Monde last winter, one rich in meaning for those who had followed Roger Garaudy's meandering career as a French intellectual since the late 1950s. More than just a…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 1996
The last few weeks have seen a renewed assault on revisionism in Hollywood, Washington, and New York, all venues which CODOH has targeted (so far) with modest success. First it was the glittering and schlocky Academy Awards presentation, at which “One Survivor Remembers,” the story of Anne Frank's helper Miep Gies, garnered the obligatory Holocaust…
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