Memorabilia: Bradley Smith Chats with Director of the USHMM
By Bradley R. Smith, Roberto Hernández ∙ December 2, 2016
On this youtube video published on March 17, 2010 (8.14 minutes) Bradley R. Smith addresses Sara J. Bloomfield, Director of the USHMM to discuss her published reaction to the CODOH ad that ran in the Badger Herald at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wonders if it is understood by Director Bloomfield and others at the Museum that with their hysteria they risk shaming some of the brightest, most independent, most courageous of Jewish students at University of Wisconsin.
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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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Roberto Hernández was the pen name of a long-time assistant and contributor to CODOH since around the turn of the millennium until about early 2023.
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