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Armored

The Boston Job

Armored

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True Crime

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1962 robbers posing as police barricaded an armored truck near Boston, Massachusetts and boosted millions in cash. Three suspects were caught but two of them never went to prison and the third vanished before testifying. To this day, the cash they stole has never been recovered.

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Take a second and think about every bill of cash that you've ever held.

0:05.8

Every bill, that first dollar bill you got under your pillow when your first tooth fell

0:09.4

out.

0:10.4

The five or ten bucks your grandma sent you in the mail on your 10th birthday.

0:14.1

The first crisp twenty you withdrew from an ATM linked to your own personal savings account.

0:19.6

Not your parents.

0:21.2

Now imagine where those dollars came from, originally.

0:24.4

The faces and places they saw before they made it to you.

0:28.4

Never wonder where those crinkly green bills, journeys took them after leaving the mint.

0:33.0

The possibilities are simply unknowable.

0:35.7

Millions of dollars in cash currency circulate every day across the globe.

0:39.6

According to UScurrency.com, back in 1913, the passing of the Federal Reserve Act established

0:46.1

a national banking system and ensured that America would have one central bank, not

0:51.1

long after that.

0:52.4

Bank notes and paper currency started flowing through people's hands in the United States.

0:57.2

At one point.

0:58.2

But even individual bills printed in sums of $1,000 in $500.

1:03.3

Can you imagine that?

1:04.6

Carrying around a $1,000 bill?

1:07.3

Odds are that the cash talked into your pocket or wallet right now was printed during

1:10.5

the last few decades.

1:12.4

At any point in its lifetime, it could have been somewhere that you'll never get the

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