The Lufthansa heist was a robbery at John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated $5 million in cash ($17.8 million today) and $875,000 in jewels ($3.1 million today) were stolen, making it the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time. This robbery was the subject of two television films, The 10 Million Dollar Getaway and The Big Heist, and is a key plot element in the 1990 film Goodfellas.
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