Attempted assassination of Andy Warhol

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On June 3, 1968, American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol survived an assassination attempt by radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas at his Manhattan studio, the Factory. Solanas opened fire with a handgun, striking Warhol once and critically wounding him, while also grazing critic Mario Amaya. Prior to the attack, Solanas had been a marginal figure in Warhol's Factory scene. She authored and self-published the SCUM Manifesto, a tract advocating for the eradication of men and the overthrow of capitalism, and appeared in Warhol's film I, a Man (1967). On the day of the shooting, she went to the Factory seeking the return of a copy of the script for her play Up Your Ass that she had given Warhol, but was turned away. Convinced that Warhol and her publisher, Maurice Girodias, were conspiring to suppress her work, she carried out the attack. Solanas was subsequently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sentenced to three years in prison.

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