Real History and David Irving on Speaking Tour

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June
9, 2008 (Monday)
Portland
– Eugene – Grant’s Pass (Oregon)

I LAST came to this university campus in July 1976, with Carla
Venchiarutti. I was researching my biography on Winston Churchill, on which I had signed the contract with Michael Joseph Ltd four years earlier; the papers of Churchill’s literary agent Curtis Brown are in the manuscripts library here. Dr Richard
Heinzkill the
Churchill bibliographer, guided me through them, and what a trove they are!

At the University this evening a large crowd has gathered in the Walnut Room. I estimate 80
people have packed into the room, with standing room only. The
92-year-old organiser of Pacifica Forum,
Orval Etter, buttonholes me at his Zimmer frame, a device I shall no doubt eventually have to use myself.

Left:
The student Gabriela who introduced Mr Irving to the audience, with her parents

I deliver what I consider a great talk, inspired by this slightly noisy, half student gathering, and we manage to get away around 9:30
pm, after a coffee at Zenon’s with Jimmy
Marr, the organiser on the ground in Eugene.
High praise, much applause; an elderly Jewish lady in the audience insists that the daylight outside the room in
Lüneburg where Heinrich Himmler died

on May 23, 1945 would still have been quite strong at that time of night, 11:15 pm (I shall check this), and a young blonde standing next to
Gabriela at the back asks several shrill questions, until
I very gently put her down (having just related the H W Wicks story, about “obsessions”, with the remark, “I think, if I may be so bold as to say so, that you have become slightly obsessive” — to general friendly laughter, and she shuts up, if only for a while.

We arrive at Grants Pass at midnight; the
Redwood Inn has closed its shutters, as they warned me, at 11 pm, so we check into the Shilo
Inn down the road. Tomorrow: the wonderful drive down the Redwood Highway, California 199, just like that dreadful May 23 day in 2002.

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