If you received our Christmas letter and thought I looked a little hang-dog in the photo, well … I was taking the photo myself on a ten-second delay. When I set off the process and made a run for my seat next to Paloma I accidentally kicked our dog in the slats and had to apologise to her and get her up onto Paloma's lap, then hunker down on the coffee table we were using for a bench before the ten seconds were up, and what you see in the photo is my expression of doubt that I am going to be able to carry it all off.
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, but keeps contributing.
Bibliographic information about this document: Smith's Report, no. 19, January 1995, p. 3 Other contributors to this document: n/a Editor’s comments: n/a
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