The Biggest Robbery You've Probably Never Heard Of

The Great Plymouth Mail Truck Robbery - August 14, 1962

On a lonesome stretch of Route 3 near Plymouth, Massachusetts, a mail truck hauling $1.5 million in small bills to the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston is stopped by a lone policeman. Unbeknownst to the driver, the policeman was a thief in disguise, and when diverted onto a detour it was only moments later when four men surrounded the truck with sawed-off…