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Title: Justice Story: How a botched bank job for sex-change loot inspired the classic
Post by: Shana A on August 19, 2012, 09:26:50 AM

Justice Story: How a botched bank job for sex-change loot inspired the classic 'Dog Day Afternoon'
The story of the 16-hour ordeal in Brooklyn in 1972 that inspired the Al Pacino movie a few years later.

By Mara Bovsun / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, August 18, 2012, 11:18 PM
   
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/justice-story-a-botched-bank-job-sex-change-loot-inspired-classic-dog-day-afternoon-article-1.1139499 (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/justice-story-a-botched-bank-job-sex-change-loot-inspired-classic-dog-day-afternoon-article-1.1139499)

People may rob banks for a lot reasons, and tops on the list is because "that's where the money is," as Willie Sutton famously observed.

But on Aug. 22, 1972, John Wojtowicz, 27, offered a novel motive — a sex-change operation.

Wojtowicz, a married father of two, had fallen hard for willowy cross-dresser, Ernest Aron, 26. The couple needed cash for the gender switch.

A little before 3 p.m. on that sultry afternoon, just as the customers were leaving, an assistant manager noticed three men enter the Chase Manhattan Bank at Avenue P and E. Third St. in Brooklyn.
Title: Re: Justice Story: How a botched bank job for sex-change loot inspired the classic
Post by: Ms. OBrien CVT on August 19, 2012, 09:50:36 AM
I thought everyone knew the story behind "Dog Day Afternoon".
Title: Re: Justice Story: How a botched bank job for sex-change loot inspired the classic
Post by: Sara Thomas on August 19, 2012, 11:39:35 AM
I've loved that movie since I first saw it as a kid! :)

Great flick!