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By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1998

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Just got back from the IHR special meeting in Costa Mesa where David Irving and Costas Zaverdinos spoke.

I’m on deadline for this issue of SR and can’t report on the meeting other than to say it was quite successful with upwards of 200 attendees, and that I’m glad I went. Had a chat with Irving, during which he did not mention that in the last issue of SR we gave the name of his newsletter Action Report as “Focal Report.” What a guy!

Bradley

  • Bradley R. Smith

    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.

Bibliographic information about this document: Smith's Report, no. 53, April 1998, p. 8
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