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 ∙ March 1, 1996
I want to thank those of you who expressed sympathy and concern for my wife in response to our Christmas letter. Some of you have sent personal notes to her, others have written expressing concern that we have not investigated alternative methods of treating breast cancer. I have some concern about that too, but in…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1995
But who’s counting? Me. On Saturday morning, 28 October, I checked to see if we had the “counter” on my Homepage. Three individuals had logged onto the site up to that hour. I was there at the very beginning. The next morning the count had gone to 12. Some of the hits (visits) were probably…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1995
Friend: Here we are in the middle of another holiday season. I have lots of good news about the Campus Internet Project, but there's something on my mind I want to clear. That's one thing holidays are for, to get your mind off what it's regularly on and on to something else. I have been…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1995
The following advertisement of material CODOH used to distribute is no longer valid, since CODOH does not currently possess any of these materials. We post it here only because it was printed in this issue of Smith's Report. Editor's remark. Smith's Report back issues. Numbers 1 -27. SR began as a “letter” to a few…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1995
In September an Indiana supporter contributed $2,000 to a “matching funds” offer, and in October a California man committed another $1,000 to the offer. This was intended to pay down my Discover Card debt, which a couple months ago stood at $4,880. Thanks to those of you who contributed directly to this fund, the debt…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1995
I mentioned in SR27 that a major U.S. periodical wanted to take a look at an excerpt from the manuscript. It was The New Yorker. I have to say that once again I felt an enthusiastic optimism about the possibility of being published in an important periodical. There are some of us who can never…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1995
THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER has its own World Wide Web site and is posting materials there which can be very helpful to everybody, except perhaps the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC). The Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has a site as well, but it’s being developed in a much more cautious, self-protective mode than that…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1995
Friend: Here is the latest on what’s happening with the Campus Internet Project, the CODOH Website, a first look at the Simon Wiesenthal Center debate(!) with revisionist theory on its own Website, and the David Irving’s talk in Seattle.
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 1, 1995
HELP WANTED I need a volunteer or two to go through the newspaper stories produced by the Campus Project to identify quotes favorable to publication of the CODOH ads, or neutral or even antagonistic to their content but which argue for their publication in the name of intellectual freedom. The majority of the clippings are…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 1, 1995
My manuscript is moving ahead methodically and I have taken the first small step in promoting it to the publishing world. The first week in August I mailed a one page query to 20 top periodicals around the country offering for publication a 6,500 word excerpt from Bones. No takers yet (no surprise). About half…
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