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 ∙ January 1, 1995
A supporter decided to post an offer on Internet to donate a free copy of the Cole/Piper video to the first 100 respondents who asked for it. Internet is the world-wide electronic hook-up of literally millions of individual computers. The idea was to encourage the development of a dialogue here in the U.S. and in…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1995
A reader writes to thank me for an audio cassette of a radio program I hosted on W.A.L.E. AM, then goes on to ask, again, “When are you going to challenge the Jews beyond the Holocaust …?” I don't expect I ever will. That's never been in the cards for me, and I have always…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1995
“Holocaust Denial, A Pocket Guide,” published be the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, is forthrightly intended to short-circuit the success the Campus Project is having on college campuses. The booklet was prepared by Marc Caplan, Research Analyst, and Alan M. Schwartz. Director, of the Anti-Defamation League's “Research and Evaluation Department.” Its opening paragraph reads: “One…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1995
If you wonder, as a reporter for an Oregon paper did, why the cartoons in SR has all those little animals in them, they are our tribute to Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus, A Survivor's Tale.
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1995
If you received our Christmas letter and thought I looked a little hang-dog in the photo, well … I was taking the photo myself on a ten-second delay. When I set off the process and made a run for my seat next to Paloma I accidentally kicked our dog in the slats and had to…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1995
One Sunday afternoon in December I was sprawled over the living room sofa channel surfing with our TV changer when I came across a CNN replay of an orientation meeting for the newly elected Republican members of the U.S. Congress. Speakers Bill Bennett and Rush Limbaugh were sharing the podium. Bennett got my attention when…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1995
Smith's Report relates the adventures of the author as he tries, against the better judgement and bitter condemnation of all the best people in America, to encourage open debate on the gas chamber controversy. Why he should have committed himself to such an evil enterprise remains one of the great mysteries in his modest life….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1995
Edgar M. Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, is circulating a fund-raising letter tying together CODOH's Campus Project and—I'm not joking here—the “rise of Vladimir Zhirinovsky” in Russia. The Jewish community is being frightened with the prospect of a new axis of power as Vladimir and Smith forge an international alliance to weigh evidence…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 1, 1995
I understand perfectly well that the Hitlerian regime was antisemitic and persecuted Jews and others. I understand many peoples, European Jews among them, experienced unfathomable tragedies in Europe during World War II. Nevertheless, I no longer believe the German State pursued a plan to kill all Jews or used homicidal “gassing chambers” for the mass…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 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 a number of issues of Smith's Report, with slight variations. This one is from no. 20. Editor's remark. Smith's Report relates the…
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