Correction: A reader writes: “The letters from Walter McCrone to Joe Marino are priceless. If I can vote for an idiotic quote of the year, this is it:”
Everything I have read or heard from Ian Wilson, Max Frei, John Jackson, William Meacham, Alan Adler, Baima Bollone, Alan Whanger, Leoncio Garza-Valdez, et al., is contradicted by my findings. How can I explain how only I could be right and dozens of other "scientists" be wrong? Very simply, none of them are chemical microscopists, small particle microanalysts, nor have they studied the Shroud tapes against a background of familiarity with pigments, media and artist’s paintings. If I am right, then all of their ideas are wrong and I am right.
— Walter McCrone
I actually have plenty more interesting emails from McCrone. I guess this is as good a time as any to start “plugging” my book, tentatively titled “Wrapped Up in the Shroud: a Chronicle,” which relates my many interesting experiences with the Shroud over almost 35 years. I hope it will be out in a about a year or so. This will not be your typical “history and scientific compilation” Shroud books. Many emails between McCrone and myself will be one of the appendices. There will be also be private emails from Ray Rogers and various material that’s never been published before. I think the correspondence with McCrone alone will make the book worth getting!