Russ Breault Luncheon

Russ Breault, Shroud of Turin Expert, Speaks at September 2007 Luncheon

Russ Breault has been researching and lecturing on the Shroud of Turin for over 20 years. He has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities and a guest presenter at scientific societies, including the American Chemical Society. Russ co-produced and appeared on the nationally televised documentary “Behold a Mystery” and has appeared on “Mysteries of the Ancient World”.

He has also attended both recent public exhibitions of the Shroud in 1998 and 2000 in Turin, Italy and is the founder and President of the Shroud of Turin Education Project Inc. Their official website is www.shroud2000.com

Russ came to our September Luncheon and gave an in-depth slide presentation of the long history of the shroud, which he called “CSI – Jerusalem”. He said the name was fitting since this was really a crime scene investigation. He presented information on chemical analysis, blood and pollen analysis, and textile analysis, as well as the erroneous 1988 carbon dating analysis that “dated” the shroud to a period from 1260 to 1390. It was later determined that the small piece from one corner of the shroud that was carbon dated was, in fact, not a piece of the original shroud, but from an area that had been repaired! While the carbon dating story made headline news across the globe, the story about that test being completely invalid was not widely disseminated.

The depth of information on the Shroud is quite impressive and cannot be captured here even in abridged form. So, for much more complete information visit www.shroud2000.com

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Chapter Alumni gather for lunch.

Bob Bush '65 and his daughter. Bob and wife Nancy are sailing around the word and left their sailboat in Signapore to come back and visit!

Russ Breault starts his presentation.

Chapter President Mitch Rowland '71 presents Russ with a personalized USNA apron