Summary
Murphy and an accomplice, Alan Kuhn, head to New York City, where they decide to pull off what was at that time the largest jewel heist in American history — robbing the JP Morgan gem collection from the Museum of Natural History.
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| 0:00.0 | People don't realize how movies affect people. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'd ask guys, they robbed the bank, |
| 0:09.0 | I said, oh man, where did you learn that? |
| 0:10.0 | I watched the movie, I watched them robbed a bank. |
| 0:12.0 | You're influenced by it and I was also influenced by guys like |
| 0:17.2 | Zorro. Zorro was a cool guy you know and handsome and all but he wore a mask and then I was influenced by |
| 0:25.4 | the lone ranger he did the right thing but he wore a mask so later on in my life |
| 0:30.1 | putting on a mask wasn't a big deal to me. |
| 0:35.0 | On the night of October 29th 1964, |
| 0:38.0 | Jack Murphy took everything he'd learned from the movies |
| 0:41.0 | and from his prolific jewel-fieving days in Miami and set off with his friend |
| 0:45.3 | and partner Alan Kuhn. He put on his mask and set in motion a hice so brazen that it would become |
| 0:51.6 | the basis of a Hollywood motion picture just a few years later. |
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