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In 1987, [[Bradley R. Smith]], a former media director of the Institute for Historical Review,<ref>http://www.axt.org.uk/antisem/archive/archive2/usa/usa.htm|title=United States of America|date=1998|work=axt.org.uk</ref> founded the '''Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust''' (CODOH).<ref>[http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/codoh.asp "Poisoning the Web&nbsp;– Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust."] ''[[Anti-Defamation League|ADL]]''. 2001. April 24, 2008.</ref> In the United States, CODOH has repeatedly attempted to place advertisements questioning whether the Holocaust happened, especially in college campus newspapers.<ref>[http://www.adl.org/holocaust/bradley_smith.asp "Bradley Smith and the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust: The New College Try".] ''[[Anti-Defamation League|ADL]]''. 2001. April 24, 2008.</ref>

Bradley Smith took his message to college students with great success. Smith referred to his project as the ''"CODOH campus project"''. He said, "They (students) are empty vessels to be filled." {{Quote|"What I wanted to do was I wanted to set forth three or four ideas that students might be interested in, that might cause them to think about things or to have questions about things. And I wanted to make it as simple as possible, and to set it up in a way that could not really be debated."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/smith_codoh/words.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=10|title=Bradley Smith, Holocaust Denial, Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust – Extremism in America|publisher=Adl.org |access-date=March 26, 2013}}</ref>|Bradley R. Smith}}

==Activism==
[[File:harvard press codoh ad.png|thumb|right|200px|Ad placed in Harvard newspaper, later claimed to be a "mistake"]]
Holocaust truthers have placed full page advertisements in college and university newspapers, including those of Brandeis University, Boston College, Pennsylvania State University, and Queens College, City University of New York. Some of these ads gave proofs that [[the Holocaust]] never happened, which generated op-ed pieces by professors and students.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shermar|first=Michael|author2=Alex Grobman|title=Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?|publisher=University of California Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0-520-21612-9|title-link=Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?}}</ref> On September 8, 2009, student newspaper ''The Harvard Crimson'' ran a paid ad from Bradley R Smith. It was quickly threatened by local [[jew]] groups, and the editor caved, issuing an apology, and claiming that the full-page ad was "an accident". <ref>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/09/09/massachusetts.harvard.holocaust/index.html|title=Harvard Crimson says Holocaust denial ad published by accident|last=Buxbaum|first=Evan|date=September 10, 2009|publisher=CNN|access-date=September 10, 2009</ref>

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