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, 1999
The Stanford Review is an independent conservative student newspaper. Its editor, Mike Toth, writes that there is little interest in the discussion of ideas among Stanford students. He ridicules the intellectual content of the Stanford Daily, the primary student newspaper at Stanford, by noting that the “big issue on campus now [at the Daily] is…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1999
From its inception, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has been a target for Bradley Smith and CODOH. And even before it opened in 1993, the Museum’s spokespersons and allies were boosting the USHMM as the cure for Holocaust revisionism—and CODOH’s Campus Project. In May, 1992 the newsletter of the future USHMM quoted Professor Deborah Lipstadt…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 1999
A fake Hitler quote which has the Fuehrer ordering the extermination of Polish civilians. A non-existent Hitler order to exterminate the Jews. Misrepresentation of installations designed to save lives as gas chambers for killing Jews. These and many more falsifications of historical fact are on display at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s permanent exhibit as…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 18, 2015
YouTube interview with Greg Lukianoff by the CATO Institute about censorship on U.S. campuses. Greg LukianoffPresident and CEOFoundation for Individual Rights in Education170 S. Independence Mall W., Suite 510Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone: 215-717-FIRE (3473)Fax: 215-717-3440 Mr. Lukianoff: The essay that won first place in FIRE's 2014-2015 Academia Essay Contest was quite uplifting. You awarded it…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 14, 2015
Coffee with Bradley Smith was a series of brief video clips Bradley did starting in October 2009. In them, he leisurely sits in his office and talks about any recent event which transpired during his ongoing Campus Project Campaign lobbying for a free exchange of ideas on the Holocaust narrative. The series was interrupted in…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 8, 2015
Mark Oppenheimer, a professor at Yale University, writes for The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Salon, Slate, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic and others, in addition to The Tablet. So we should take him seriously. In his Tablet article of 2 November, this Jewish writer notes that Willis Carto was a “plain…
By Bradley R. Smith, Germar Rudolf, Jett Rucker ∙ November 3, 2015
Subscription Renewals This issue of Smith’s Report has a letter included asking most of you print edition subscribers to please consider renewing their subscription. This is a new approach for us. In the past, Smith’s Report was based not on subscriptions, but on whoever had recently donated some considerable amount to CODOH and/or Bradley Smith….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 3, 2015
Willis Carto Passed Away! Hours before sending this issue to the printer, we received the message that Willis A. Carto died on Monday, October 26, 2015. See the online obituary here: codoh.com/library/document/3773/ *** The CODOH trustees write in SR #216: “Hurray, we did it! CODOH is now officially a Charitable Trust, has its own Tax…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1998
It was probably my eighth Christmas and we were still living in the little house behind a regular house in South Los Angeles. I slept on the sofa there until I was ten in what we called the “front room,” and to get to the bathroom I would have had to go outside across the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1998
John Bennett, founder and president of the Australian Civil Liberties Union, sends CODOH a warm hello from Down Under, where he has promoted revisionist scholarship and defended revisionist rights for more than twenty years. As Arthur Butz recently noted, “[Bennett’s] annual Your Rights booklet has made it the case that Australia is the only country…
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