Memorabilia: 13th IHR Conference – Revisionists Countess, Smith and Bennett
By Bradley R. Smith, Robert H. Countess, John T. Bennett ∙ January 30, 2018
Two American Revisionists, Robert Countess and the late Bradley Smith plus Australian John Bennett share their fascinating insights at the 13th Institute of Historical Review conference.
This superb video (One hour 44 minutes) shows the 13th IHR conference. Robert Countess, Bradley R Smith (founder of CODOH) and the Australian Civil liberties Champion, John Bennett, speak on various issues affecting the progress of the rebuttal of the Holocau$t lie. A superb video – notice the effect that Bradley has on his audience. Bradley after a lifetime of rebutting the Holocaust lie, sadly passed away in 2016.
May he rest in peace.
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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.
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Dr. Robert Harvey Countess (born in 1938, and died in 2005 near Huntsville, AL) graduated from Huntsville High School in 1955. After three years in the Army, he began his life-long learning by studying at Bob Jones University where he received his B.A. in Religion and English; M.A. in Religion, and Ph.D. in New Testament Greek. He also received an M.L.S. in Humanities and Philosophy from Georgetown University, and studied at numerous other universities. Receiving his ordination in 1965, he was the pastor of churches in New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama. He served as Chaplain at Redstone Arsenal from 1980 to 1984, served in the Alabama National Guard, and retired from the U.S. Army as Captain in 1997.
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John Tucson Bennett (born 26 July 1944) was a solicitor and president of the Australian Civil Liberties Union, who is most notable for being a leader in the Holocaust revisionist movement in Australia. Bennett graduated with honors from the University of Melbourne in both law (1958) and arts (1966) and subsequently worked for over 20 years from 1974 to 1996 in the Victorian Legal Aid Commission. He also helped establish the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty Victoria) 1966 and serviced as its secretary until 1980. After his expulsion from the group for his dissenting views, he went on to start an organization called the Australian Civil Liberties Union.
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