Gardner Museum Heist Video Links
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1990
Gardner Museum Surveillance Excerpt from the night before the historic robbery March 17, 1990 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSw1BsJEBB4&feature=youtu.be&t=42 CBS News Report March 19, 1990 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkgzOtcsF0 Interview with mystery writer Jane Langton on art theft at Gardner Museum and at the 3:00 raw, unedited footage from the Gardner Museum from Monday, March 19, 1990 http://bostonlocaltv.org/catalog/V_BRL05LVH3UGDLKK Gardner Museum Press Conference and news segement from March 19, 1990 http://bostonlocaltv.org/catalog/V_85JLJJ6NA13AS8O
WCVB News Report "from the archive" March 19, 1990 about the Gardner heist.
"A couple of individuals dressed in security guard or police uniforms not the uniforms of Boston police, ostensibly identified themselves as Boston police officers investigating a disturbance around the building. They were allowed into the building, they were cuffed, and the theft then occurred."
—Boston Police Department Captain David Walsh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrx61kkv2xo
2000-2011
Dan Lothian CNN Gardner heist Segment 2005 with Harold Smith, U.S. Attorne Michael Sullivan, FBI's Geoff Kelly, and many others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2feB6u9ylo8An on camera appeal from the Museum's Director in 2005 to an anonymous letter writer 11 eleven years earlier (1994), who seemed legitimate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2feB6u9ylo8&t=562
Movie Trailer for must see Gardner heist documentary "Stolen" 2006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE1j1_4xbJc Stolen Trailer William Youngworth Profiles from "Art of the Heist" program segment 2006"The paint chips they got they immediately tested them against the the wrong paintings. When they were pointed in the right direction all they would come back and say was they are completely consistent with the Vermeer, that the color the pigmentation and all of the characteristics of the chips were consistent with that. What they got was a genuine material. What they chose to do with it was not address it." William Youngworth 2006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfX65XEHLE0 WBUR "Director of Security at the Gardner, Anthony Amore, takes us through the events of the [Gardner Museum] robbery." March 12, 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irBRWMMHOI8 America's Most Wanted Segment on the Gardner Investigation April 11, 2009 https://vimeo.com/24216088o Ulrich Boser discussing the Gardner robbery and 2009 book "The Gardner Heist" 2009 https://archive.org/details/lwcatma-Books_and_Authors_On_Location-_The_Gardner_Heist February 2010 WBUR Tom Ashbrook Interiew with Anne Hawley and Anthony Amore from the Gardner Museum Dutch Room and the Museum basement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84iJDlWfXaE Ulrich Boser at Bookends In Winchester May 23, 2010 https://archive.org/details/WinCAM-UlrichBoserAtBookendsInWinchester566 Charles V. Sabba interviews Paul Hendry about the stolen Gardner art recovery efforts. 2011 https://youtu.be/F4mJMYCHlRg?t=63
2012
Charles V. Sabba lecture on the William Youngworth's effort to make a deal to return the stolen Gardner art 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhXZEqcpskk2013 (Part 1)
Interview with US Attorney Carmen Ortiz and Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers by Emily Rooney March 19, 2013 [REMOVED]
Nitkitas: Whitey Bulger got arrested a year and half ago have you ever talked to him about this, asked him whether he knows anything about it?
DesLauriers: No.
Nitkitas: You haven't?
DesLauriers: No.
Nitkitas: You think it wouldn't be worth doing that?
DesLauriers: No. There's no connection to the Bulger investigation.
Nitkitas: Does he. maybe he knew of the theft?
DesLauriers: There's no connection to the Bulger investigation.
http://nbclim-download.edgesuite.net//Prod//NBCU_LM_VMS_-_NECN//456//90//031913_GardnerMuseum_Broadside-E_NECN1500kMP4.mp4 Gardner Museum Thefts: FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers March 18, 2013 https://youtu.be/EyNdZmrqNFE?t=47 Gardner Museum Thefts: Special Agent Geoff Kelly March 18, 2013 https://youtu.be/noX0jW9E6NU Anthony Amore discussing high-profile art heists at the Strand Bookstore NYC June 13, 2013 https://youtu.be/H0SMtFUOImQ?t=2568
2013 (Part2)
December 2013 WGBH Interiew of Anne Hawley and Geoff Kelly by Emily Rooney https://youtu.be/WwnQs1BvvlU?t=51 BBC's Alastair Sooke "The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings" Aired 12/21/2013 Begins and ends with the Gardner heist, discusses some other cases also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYJkCct5G8&feature=youtu.be&t=138 BC's Alastair Sooke "The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings" Aired 12/21/2013 —Tom Mashberg Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYJkCct5G8&feature=youtu.be&t=1589 BBC's Alastair Sooke "The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings" Aired 12/21/2013 —Myles Connor Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYJkCct5G8&feature=youtu.be&t=2005 BBC's Alastair Sooke "The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings" Aired 12/21/2013 —Geoff Kelly Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYJkCct5G8&feature=youtu.be&t=3261 Anthony Amore Weston Library October 29, 2013 Time 58:00 https://vimeo.com/780814732014
Anthony Amore November 12, 2014 Time: 1:16:45 "I can't tell you specifics about the [Gardner Heist] thieves and what I know from them. All I can say about them is that they cannot lead us to the paintings today." https://archive.org/details/BelmontHistoricalSocietyStealingRembrandts111214CL19 Anthony Amore Fisher College March 27, 2014 https://youtu.be/KKYFJMWhk3A?t=3071 FBI confirms sighting of art heist masterpieces May 22, 2014 https://youtu.be/NIug0hDZ0a0?t=262 Anthony Amore discusses his book "Stealing Rembrandts" and the Gardner Heist Boyden Library, Foxboro, MA June 27, 2014 https://youtu.be/OewbHrtCHpk?t=42002015 (Part 1)
WGBH Interview with Anne Halwey Feb 17, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNJ2htOtl0g FBI announces for the first time that Gardner Heist thieves "are currently dead." WCVB March 17, 2015 https://www.wcvb.com/article/art-still-nowhere-to-be-found-25-years-after-being-stolen/8060228 Boston Globe Interview of FBI Special Agent Geoff Kelly and Anthony Amore by the Boston Globe March 17, 2015 https://d32e4p2yfip7hy.cloudfront.net/wp-bostonglobe/2018/07/06/5b3fe4c1e4b0fe8d9f2757a1/5b40b672e4b0bf5751940424_1466504570141-s6zbhn_t_1530967668389_640_360_600.mp4WGBH Jared Bowen interview of Anthony Amore March 18, 2015
"In the inteview you refer to, if you read it very closely nobody really named anybody.
The New York Times article provides conjecture based on a theory that was presented to the reporter
[Amore co-author Tom Mashberg]. Again in that interview we didn't name the two people. Those are the two the reporter surmised from the information.” — Anthony Amore
https://youtu.be/XkNj0825jIQ?t=68
2015 (Part 2)
Gardner Museum Surveillance Excerpt U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts August 6, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSw1BsJEBB4 FBI Release Heist Video Hoping To Spark Leads Peter Kowenhoven FBI Boston Assistant SAIC Associated Press August 6, 2015 https://youtu.be/svJh_xmz5fI?t=48 New video released in infamous 1990 Boston art heist CBS August 8, 2015 "The night watchman has somewhere in his cranium the knowledge of the identity of one of the two thieves." Stephen Kurkjian https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-video-released-in-infamous-1990-boston-art-heist/ Boston Globe video report on the Gardner Heist surveillance video August 10, 2015 https://d32e4p2yfip7hy.cloudfront.net/wp-bostonglobe/2018/07/06/5b3fdf7ee4b0fe8d9f2702ac/5b3ff5b5e4b083f77c08029d_1466504825519-sqadz1_t_1530918329049_640_360_300.mp4 Interview of Anthony Amore by Jim Braude August 11, 2015 discussing the released the Gardner Heist eve surveillance video on August 6, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1EVjKp90ug&feature=youtu.be WCVB Report on Video Surveillance footage August 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Qm0OQXyx4 Kurkjian "Master Thieves" Gardner Heist presentation Boston, MA August 20, 2015 https://youtu.be/FkrEdaEK9PQ?t=739 Interview with Former Norfolk County D.A. George Burke whose claimed to identify individual in the Gardner Heist eve sureillance video. August 11, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISRZsjWVY_s Stephen Kurkian interview about the Gardner Heist and his book Master Thieves October 2015 Time: 26:35 https://newtv.org/all-episodes-by-category/98-museum-open-house/1844-stephen-kurkjian CBS Good Morning Segment from December 6, 2015 with Anne Hawley, Geoff Kelly, and Anthony Amore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTbhFNXFyJ0&feature=youtu.be&t=9282016-2019
Interview where former Mafia capo Robert Luisi said that the Robert Guarente told him the stolen Gardner art is "buried in a cellar in Florida." WFTV July 28, 2016 https://www.wftv.com/news/trending-now/boston-mobster-turned-memphis-pastor-discusses-500-million-art-heist-1/413196412/ Southborough Library Presentation March 10, 2016 about the Gardner Heist, Stephen Kurkjian describes how he got the story about a possible Vincent Ferrara connection to the Gardner Heist and right after about why he has grown more skeptical about the Rick Abath's claimed innocence over time. https://youtu.be/83hX6f3P-QA?t=4730 Interview of Stephen Kurkjian about his Gardner Robbery related book "Master Thieves" by Joseph Catalano at the Thomas Crane Library, Quincy, MA March 31, 2016 https://youtu.be/KdzO-8GgRhs?t=562 Kurkjian "Master Thieves" Gardner Heist presentation Weston, MA January 20, 2016 https://archive.org/details/Stephen_Kurkjian_at_Weston_Public_Library_January_20_2016 News Coverage of May 2, 2016 search of the residence Robert Gentile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TFHBdO9XTM Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist - Interview July 31, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3eNi8KwTc&t=943s Kurkjian Presentation Revere, MA Interesting discussion about the motions sensors May 16, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpSPErcoq08&feature=youtu.be&t=4148 Interview with Arthur Brand, who believes I.R.A. has the stolen Gardner art in Ireland July 2017 https://youtu.be/siBlkSPI6mM?t=87 Norfolk Senior Center - "MasterThieves" Book Discussion with Stephen Kurkjian October 11, 2017 https://youtu.be/L6m1S3JpqVg?t=1691 Interview of Stephen Kurkjian by Lowell Sun November 6, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9wAP-FL2i8 WGBH 28th Anniversary Report and Interview with Anthony Amore by Jim Braude with Jared Bown March 15, 2018 https://youtu.be/HgKsLeNN_GE?t=145What Happened Inside The Gardner Museum During The Heist WBUR September 16, 2018 "What we don't know is when they [the thieves] went into the Blue Room, to take Chez Tortoni that could have been the first room they entered we don't know because no motion sensors on the first floor went off that night, so it's difficult to say when that was taken." —Anthony Amore https://youtu.be/sAxZSdNej-I?list=PLYlGB8DA1BEwjdM8ayWSABOW9KY04GU44&t=130
"The Thrilling Gardner Museum Heist" Seven million views on youtube. These millenials, too young to remember the Gardner heist, take an irreverent look at the Heist and investigation. Passing, along many of the common fallacies about the case and the investigation, it is at least very entertaining. February 2, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkxQXxKSWKQ&t=406sNew England's Unsolved: The Gardner heist 30 years later (March 20 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YZZQlpA8HY
Transcript
First Republic Bank August 1, 2020
Amore: "We are haunted, in some cases vexed in this investigation by just bad luck. I can't tell you how many times we've gotten a lead and a name and we drive out to see the person that day to find that the person died a week earlier. It just happens constantly to us." https://gardnerheist.com/Webinar%20-%20Behind-the-Scenes%20of%20the%20Gardner%20Museum%20Heist.mp4 Transcript
2021
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist Webinar by Cambridge Trust Bank, an interview of Last Seen Podcast senior producer Kelly Horan "As someone who also has enjoyed a fair amount of pot boilers I knew that red herrings would work and so my goal in structuring the entire [Last Seen Podcast] ten episode series, the kind of narrative arc that I wanted to put in place was one where each episode would take you in deep inside a theory, you would meet the central characters of that theory and then you would leave that episode saying 'Aha! that's the one.' only to have the next episode come along and make you doubt that because that was my experience, the experience of reporting this was like whiplash. You know, 'This must be it.' 'No this must be it.' 'He must have done it. No he must have done it.'" —Kelly Horan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVP1rkqVFCE&t=609s "Rock n Roll Outlaw: The Ballad of Myles Connor" Documentary Trailer featuring Anthony Amore for a nonexistent documentary about Myles Connor's grossly exaggerated music career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NycWZHORQnw&t=77s2022
The Billion Dollar Art Hunt BBC Documentary April 7,2022 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8cwteu2023
Vanished: The 1990 Heist of the Isabella Gardner Museum at the Westport Librar November 16, 2023 with Stephen Kurkjian and Robert K. Wittman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifq6Ej1t-6Y&pp=0gcJCfcAhR29_xXO2024
"Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Museum Robbery: Myth Busting by Charles Sabba April 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JXyjZ8I1I0 "Master Thieves: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist With Author Steve Kurkjian" March 7, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQVLnajbXAk&t=1336s FBI lead investigator [Geoff Kelly] of Gardner heist retiring, speaks of recent potential sightings of stolen art "There are some speculative sightings that are not corroborated that would have been much more recently, like in the last couple of years." Geoff Kelly https://d3rtz3mdbmjoag.cloudfront.net/wp-cmg/20240425/662ad6b3137ac44832b0a315/file_1920x1080-5400-v4/file_960x540-1200-v3_1.mp42025
https://youtu.be/xy1tSDQReQA Empty Frames Live w/ Charles Pinning March 20, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tAD7yzn_Zc The Gardner Heist, a talk with Ulrich Boser Maine Historical Society Apr 24, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKhlh3Indqk "Boston 25’s Bob Ward keeps Kim Carrigan company as her cohost. They talk about the Gardener Museum art heist with investigator Anthony Amore Anthony Amore: "We believe we know who took the paintings... But all that matters to me is where they are right now...You won't find an example of some rich person who passes away or gets caught with these stolen masterpieces. It's the stuff of fiction. So many people think the Sultan of Brunai has our paintings or the Adnan Khashoggi and they don't." https://youtu.be/LRRlNAoGaco?t=2321Amore likes to call him the Adnan Khashoggi, who died in 2017 of Parkinsons Disease two weeks after the Gardner Museum doubled the reward to $10 million. The twenty minute podcast segment is a master class in disinformation.
French Give Paintings to Meese : U.S. Gets Custody of Art Marcos Allegedly Stole Los Angeles Times January 7, 1988
PARIS — French police quietly turned over nine valuable paintings to Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese III at the U.S. Embassy in Paris on Wednesday after seizing them from Saudi Arabian businessman Adnan Khashoggi, according to French government and legal sources.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-07-mn-33794-story.html
1985
"The Khashoggi lifestyle is anything but quiet." Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (February 23, 1985) https://youtu.be/rjM2TOplSco?t=1301
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