The Dog Page #6

Then you have

all these theatrics.

They had pizzas delivered.

He threw money out the door.

Anybody would love.

This is Robin Hood.

KAPPSTATTER:
It's the little man

against the system,

the little man trying

to do something good.

Banks. Who loves banks?

Anybody love a bank here?

But I don't think

he was playing to the crowd.

He was too involved in getting

him and Sal out of there alive.

We didn't know how this thing

was going to end.

Was he going to start shooting?

Were they going to work

their way

into that bank building somehow?

That was what made those hours

tension-filled.

We did not know how this

was going to resolve itself.

WOMAN:
As the day wore on,

we were becoming very depressed.

We were tired. We were hot.

We were hungry.

We were frightened.

You name it, that's how we were,

and by a couple of the things

that he said,

I realized that he was friendly,

he wanted to be friendly.

I mean, there was a purpose

why he was robbing the bank.

He really didn't think that

it would take that long.

He thought that he would be

in and out,

but the way things happened,

he didn't get out.

MAN:
We spoke to him.

He is making demands

for an escape route.

The problems with the demands

of the escape route

is that he wants to take the

hostages with him at this time.

All of them?

All of them.

And what does he want

in exchange?

Does he want his lover?

He did, and he does.

We have his wife here.

MAN:
That was the reason

for the releasing the guard.

That was the way

we got one guard out

on that bargain to let him talk

on the telephone.

The wife is right

across the street

but refuses to go near him.

She believes John

to be unstable

and will kill him.

That's his current wife,

is it not?

Well, I believe so,

unless he has 3 or 4.

EDEN:

[Telephone rings]

WOJTOWICZ:
All of a sudden,

the cop gets on the phone.

"Somebody's here to see you."

So I think it's Ernie.

So I go outside.

It ain't Ernie.

I said, "What are you

doing here?"

It's Patsy.

[Wolf whistle]

Before I met Ernie, one of

my relationships was Patsy.

So Patsy comes down

because Patsy really loves me.

[Crowd cheering]

So I go outside,

and I walk over to him,

and I tongue him.

MAN:
Oh!

[Wolf whistle]

What people forget is,

in those days in a gay bar,

you were not allowed

to touch each other.

You couldn't walk down

the Village holding hands

because the straights would

beat you up, or the cops would.

CROWD:

The phone rings.

I says, "Hello?"

He says, "This is the mayor."

I said, "The mayor who?"

He said, "The Mayor of New York.

This is Mayor Lindsay."

I says, "Yeah?

What do you want?"

He said, "We will kill

all the hostages to stop you

"because you're not making

New York City look ridiculous.

"You're not letting the

New York City Police Department

"look ridiculous.

The whole nation

is watching us."

TERRY:
When he see me,

he turned his head.

He felt more likely embarrassed

because he's very close to me,

very attached.

He's not that rugged.

He's timid.

He might've been or try to be,

but he's not.

He's very harmless,

no meanness in him.

He's always been good-hearted.

You know what I mean?

He's never been gambling or

drinking or anything like that.

TERRY:

MAN:
Very interesting quote

made by the other man...

Wojahowitz,

whatever his name is.

He said, "The Supreme Court

will let me get away with this.

"There's no death penalty.

It's ridiculous.

"I can shoot everyone here,

and they can't put me

in the electric chair."

I wonder what your response

to that would be?

I have no response

to that, really.

MALE REPORTER:
Later,

the two bank robbers demanded

a plane at Kennedy Airport

and a car to get them there.

Finally around 3:30

this morning,

an airport limousine

pulled up at the bank

with an FBI agent at the wheel.

Only then did the second gunman

come out of the bank,

a rifle slung over his shoulder.

26-year old Salvatore Naturale

then joined Wojtowicz

and their hostages

in their limousine

and headed for Kennedy Airport.

Along the way, they had

plenty of company.

Perhaps 40 cars followed

carrying police

and relatives of the hostages.

The caravan would pass

through an airport gate

leading to a secluded runway.

The bank robbers had hoped

to make their escape

in a small jet plane.

They failed.

The aircraft was rolling up,

and as we were making plans

to depart from the limousine,

we had a driver

in the limousine, an agent,

and Mr. Baker and Mr. Feld

charged the men

and diverted the shotgun

and the machine gun,

and in the meantime, the agent

had a chance to shoot him

and when one was shot,

the other immediately gave up.

[Police radio chatter]

MALE REPORTER:

Naturale was killed by the FBI.

Wojtowicz is in jail.

[Police radio chatter]

TERRY:

WOJTOWICZ:
OK. We're

in Brooklyn, New York.

This is my brother Tony.

He's been away since

he was 5 years old

because he has epilepsy and he has

seizures and he forgets things.

Yeah.

And when he forgets things,

he has to start all over from the

beginning like he was just born.

Yeah.

So if he has a seizure,

it's like going back to zero

and then they got to

re-teach him everything.

So once a year, he comes

down to New York to visit us

and we take him out sightseeing

and to different places.

Yeah.

Today we took him

to Western Beef,

a couple of blocks

from my mother's house.

Yep.

Then we're going to be going to Coney

Island to put him on the rides

and show him some of the sights in

New York while he's here visiting.

Yeah, well, we know that.

WOJTOWICZ, VOICE-OVER: I have two

brothers, one older and one younger,

so I'm the middle one.

My older brother, Tony... the court

took him away from my mother

and put him in a state institution

that he's still in now.

WOMAN:
Have you two been to

Coney Island a lot together?

Nope, never. First time.

For him.

No, I don't know what

you're talking about.

You're out of your dick.

We never went to Coney island...

stay in the middle lane.

Always in the middle.

'Cause these a**holes don't know

where they're gonna get off.

TERRY:

WOJTOWICZ:
You do?

See what it says here?

Home of the Dog Eating Contest.

TERRY:

All the way down, right?

You see, that's

the ocean out there?

Yeah.

Right?

And you see the Wonder Wheel?

TERRY:

WOJTOWICZ, VOICE-OVER: That's

the way they play the game.

I'm telling you.

That's what they do.

It's called the system, and the

system doesn't give a f***.

I can't believe we can't get a f***ing

ride and they got no ice cream.

My mother says I'm crazy.

I say,

"Well we know that."

I said, "You got to remember,

"they only put the nuts that are

pretending in the nuthouse.

The real ones,

they don't want."

Yeah. Yeah.

I've been in a couple of them.

Yeah, they're not too bad.

Yeah.

The cops for robbing.

No, I did.

Yep. We're gonna

pass it.

Yeah, we should drive by it.

Avenue P and East 3rd.

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