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 ∙ January 1, 2000
“To refuse a hearing to an opinion because they are sure that it is false is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.”—John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) “It was naive to believe that the 'light of day' can dispel lies,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 6, 2000
Original photo published in The Auschwitz Album (New York: Random House, 1981), p. 126 (photo 183). It shows Hungarian Jews shortly after their arrival at Auschwitz. They appear to be relaxed. Falsified Photo. In 1997 the Simon Wiesenthal Center [SWC] posted the same photo on its Website captioned: “As these prisoners were being processed for…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 3, 2000
Dream that I’m shot in the head, then the heart. The hit to the head is accompanied by a tremendous blast of hot air. I see everything blowing apart. The shot to the heart is a little high and to my left. It’s an unnecessary follow up. The dream half wakens me and I lie…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 2000
The ADL is consistent: it will always argue against a free press when the Holocaust controversy is being addressed. One of its routines is to use the—let's put this as carefully as we can—transparently stupid comparison of revisionist theory to the ADL's “hypothetical” paper arguing that Black slavery did not exist in America. This invented,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1999
I've invented a kind of chess game in which those who are naturally disposed toward intolerance and closed minds have chosen to be my perennial opponents. Rather than rules to play by, there is a process during which each player makes up his or her own rules as the game progresses. No player has the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 30, 1998
This is going to be, I hope, an ongoing record of what I am doing with the Campus Project this academic year. I had good intentions with regard to this in past years, as can be seen from the aborted entries I made in 1997 and 1996, but I couldn't find time to keep up…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 30, 1998
Editor's Note: This is an older version of a page which replaced it. It has been maintained solely for the historical record. It shows the evolution of Smith's thinking in this campus blog from the pre-blog age. This is going to be, I hope, an ongoing record of what I am doing with the Campus…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 30, 1998
Lexi Baugher, ad manager for The California Tech at California Institute of Technology, called to say The Tech would run the ad. On the 14th we discussed the layout of the ad by telephone and it was set to go on the 18th. I then received an e-mail message from their business manager: Dear Mr….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 10, 1998
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran an article (15 Sept.) headlined: “Ad sparks annual controversy.” The story reports on the first reactions to the ad having run at GSU. Written by Ernie Suggs, it reports that the ad challenges the ADL to a national televised debate “on such issues as whether gas chambers were used to exterminate…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 8, 1998
Details for Entrants The Offer: CODOH will award $250,000 cash to the one individual instrumental in arranging a 90-minute debate on National Network Television, in prime time, between three members of CODOH (Bradley R. Smith, Dir.) and three members of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. One individual: CODOH will award the benefits of the…
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