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Today in History: August 22, hostages taken during botched Brooklyn bank robbery

Also on this date, President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients.

A woman in white uniform is released from the Chase Manhattan bank branch in New York’s Harlem, April 18, 1973, while still more people remains inside, held hostage by two bandits. The men released several hostages before agreeing to come out with a television newsman. As the woman leaves the bank, police use a brick wall and a car as shields. Another policeman has taken up a vantage point in background, left center. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)
A woman in white uniform is released from the Chase Manhattan bank branch in New York’s Harlem, April 18, 1973, while still more people remains inside, held hostage by two bandits. The men released several hostages before agreeing to come out with a television newsman. As the woman leaves the bank, police use a brick wall and a car as shields. Another policeman has taken up a vantage point in background, left center. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)
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John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees hostage at a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn, New York, during a botched robbery.

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