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, 1997
I understand perfectly well that the Hitlerian regime was anti-Semitic 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 mass murder….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 3, 1997
Media Madness will be the record of what I do to help create an open debate about the Jewish Holocaust story on university and college campuses, together with media reaction to this diabolical plan. In this context, media includes the print press on and off campus, electronic media on and off campus, and the Internet….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 12, 1996
Holocaust RevisionismWhy the panic? Judge for yourself. The evidence, the theory, the censorship. http://www.codoh.comOr: [old mailing address] Doc. 1: Ad submitted to Catholic University of America Holocaust Revisionism Why are the Thought Police panicked?Read the evidence. Judge for yourself. http://www.codoh.com [old mailing address] Doc. 2: Ad submitted to Catholic University of America Catholic University of…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1996
The following brief article was written in 1996 by Bradley Smith to serve as an introduction to the Tangled Web: Consequences Webpage. The CODOH Revisionist Library has chosen to preserve these brief comments even though the page in question has since been updated. Here you will find some of the consequences of what has come…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1979
I used to keep a journal. I tried to keep it every day. Sometimes I did, sometimes I didn't. It was in September 1979 that I discovered the controversy that was emerging around the Holocaust story. In fishing around through some old boxes I have found part of my journals for that year. Some might…
By Bradley R. Smith, David Cole ∙ March 14, 1994
Your browser does not support the video tag. The Phil Donahue Show of March 14, 1994, featuring Bradley Smith, David Cole and Michael Shermer(with comments by Mike Smith aka DenierBud)
By Bradley R. Smith, Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1991
The Contemporary Issue No subject enrages campus Thought Police more than Holocaust Revisionism. We debate every other great historical issue as a matter of course, but influential pressure groups with private agendas have made the Holocaust story an exception. Elitist dogma manipulated by special interest groups corrupts everything in academia. Students should be encouraged to…
By Bradley R. Smith, I. Sarich ∙ April 4, 1991
This text appeared in the Daily Northwestern on 4 April 1991 as a full-page paid advertisement. It created rather a stir at Northwestern and alerted the Deborah Lipstadt’s and other intellectual fascists on campus to the fact that there was someone in America who was going to challenge the suppression of free inquiry into the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 2, 1996
Thursday, 1 February 96 David Stennett, a student at University of Puget Sound (WA) left a review copy of David Cole's video about fraud at Auschwitz, “David Cole Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper,” at the UPS History office. The video was reviewed by Professor Theodore Taranovsky, who teaches something on the Jewish holocaust and revisionism. Taranvoski…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1996
Wednesday, 3 January Denial, a new play by Peter Sagal, had its world premiere in December at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. Shades of O'Niel and all the others. The play concerns a Jewish attorney working for the ACLU who is asked to defend a professor and author who is a holocaust revisionist….
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