High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Lufthansa heist was a robbery at John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewels were stolen, at the time making it the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil. 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. Presently, as announced in the August 20, 2011, issue of The Middletown Press, the author, Daniel Simone, and Henry Hill are collaborating on the production of a book and screenplay that will outline the true account of the famous robbery with facts and particulars never before revealed. The title of this project is, "The Lufthansa Heist".