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 ∙ May 1, 1995
This is the essay / advertisement we' re talking about. It's been seen and most likely read by perhaps 150,000 college students, faculty and administrators during March and April of this year. (Click on it to enlarge). This ad does not claim “the Holocaust never happened.” Those who say it does want to muddy the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 1995
After bemoaning the fact that the Campus Project had been undercut irreversibly for the 1994 / 1995 school year, toward the end of March I received some unexpected funding for it. I suggested as much in the letter for April that you should have received. It was very late in the season, but we managed…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 1995
Friend: I know! I killed Smith’s Report two months ago! So what’s this? After I killed SR, I said I was going to keep you informed monthly of what’s going on here. If I’m going to write you monthly, what am I going to call the letter I write? I’ve got to call it something….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1995
Re two unfinished items from Smith's Report: Robert Faurisson has decided to not reply, for the time being in any event, to David Cole's elaborate response to Faurisson's brief letter regarding the necessity for further discussion of the Struthof “gas chamber,” both of which I ran in SR21. At the same time, I was to…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1995
Friend: Sometimes you have to pause, or even take a step backward, reassess the work you've been doing, then take another run at it from a new angle. This letter, then, will inform you how it came about that I decided to kill Smith's Report (SR) and what's on the burner for the immediate future….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 1995
The below notice was false news, as this website amply proves. But… since we post it all, here it is. Webmaster This is the final edition of Smith’s Report. I’m not going away. Those of you who have supported my work over the years, as well as those who have begun to contribute recently, will…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 1995
Leo Laufer is a survivor of Auschwitz/Birkenau who monitors the Dallas (Texas) press to insure that it gives survivors a square deal and that the Holocaust is never forgotten. On 10 February 1977 a letter from Mr. Laufer ran in The Dallas Times-Herald (defunct) reporting that Laufer had spent almost two years at Birkenau where…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 1995
The very professional artist who has been drawing the Spiegelmaus cartoons has decided, for reasons of health, to stop drawing them. The artist says that the stress of working with the material inflames the lining of his stomach. I know the feeling. If any of you knows someone who knows someone who might be interested…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 1995
I reported in SR 19 that it was a little dismaying to discover that, according to historian John Lukacs, revisionist historian Harry Elmer Barnes wrote that Hitler's only fault was that he was “too soft, generous and honorable.” Several readers responded to put the lie to Lukacs. “Re your inquiry on the Barnes 'quote.' It's…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 1995
U. The National College Magazine, February 1995 He’s Ad It Again When then-production editor Brian McBrearity walked into Boston College’s student newspaper offices one day in December 1993, he had no idea of the trouble waiting. That morning, The Heights had run a paid advertisement from the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. In…
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