John Wojtowicz: The Story of a Bank Robbery to Fund His Lover’s Gender-Conversion Surgery.

The genuine story that inspired the film “Dog Day Afternoon” differs significantly from other bank heists.

L. Small
5 min readDec 4, 2022

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John Wojtowicz looks through the bank window during the robbery. Photo source.

John Wojtowicz was born in New York City in 1945 and led a typical life in the late 1960s.

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L. Small

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