Date: 2016-01-27
Master Thieves
7:00pm–Guest Speaker: Author Stephen Kurkjian, Boston Globe Investigative Reporter, retired.The story of the biggest theft in art history is a case defined by superlatives — the largest art theft in history, carrying the world’s largest reward offer, longer on the FBI’s list of biggest unsolved art crimes than any other save one. Two men disguised as Boston Police officers trick their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum after midnight and make off with an estimated half billion dollars’ worth of artwork. In Master Thieves Kurkjian reveals how the two criminal gangs battling for control of the Boston under-world knew of the museum’s poor security and had motive to pull off the theft. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. Presented by the Framingham Public Library. LOCATION: Town Hall, Blumer Room.
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