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, 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….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 11, 1995
Wednesday, 1 November When I clicked onto our Homepage this morning I found a blank screen. I had a small attack of anxiety. The first thing that came to me was that someone, probably from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, had leaned on the people at Valleynet and my provider had caved. A few years ago…
By Bradley R. Smith, Michael Hoy ∙ January 1, 1990
At the time of this interview, Michael Hoy was publisher of Loompanics Catalog Loompanics. What exactly is your book, Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist, about? Bradey R. Smith. Exactly? Why don't you ask something difficult? I don't know what it's about. If I did I probably wouldn't be working on Part II. I thought it…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1986
When the Bill of Rights was attached to the United States Constitution by those men responsible for founding the American Government, the ideals of freedom of conscience and political liberty were institutionalized for the citizenry in a way hardly imagined by any other people in history. Among those rights, none has proved more valuable to…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1993
Let’s agree that one ideal of the university is to promote intellectual freedom, and one ideal of the professorial class is to teach students to honor it. Yet this is not true in Holocaust Studies. There, if students express doubt about “eyewitness” testimony, for example, even if it is demonstrably false, dishonorable or both, they…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1987
Table of Contents Preface: p. v Chapter 1 – 1979, p. 3 Chapter 2 – 1984, p. 7 Chapter 3 – 1979, p. 14 Chapter 4 – 1979, p. 27 Chapter 5 – 1985, p. 36 Chapter 6 – 1979, p. 46 Chapter 7 – 1985, p. 55 Chapter 8 – 1980, p. 66 Chapter…
By Bradley R. Smith, Robert Faurisson ∙ January 9, 1983
It was Robert Faurisson's paper on “The Rumor of Auschwitz” that introduced me to Holocaust revisionism. The night I read it was a milestone in my life. In 1983 Faurisson flew to Southern California from France to give a talk to a conference sponsored by the Institute For Historical Review. I was so taken by…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 2, 1979
TUESDAY, 1 FEBRUARY. In Malibu this morning running down a geology report. The sky was full of sunshine and thick white clouds. Turned up Malibu Canyon and climbed swiftly up the grade. Ahead and below I could see fragments of black clouds blowing through the canyon from the East toward the sea. In the bottom…
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