On June 3rd, 1968, Valerie Solanas, angered that Andy Warhol had lost a script of hers, made an afternoon visit to Warhol’s Midtown Manhattan studio, known as The Factory.
She had a .32 revolver stashed in a brown paper bag. Warhol, accompanied by his boyfriend, Jed Johnson, and art critic Mario Amaya, saw Solanas outside The Factory and invited her in.
Once inside, Solanas pulled out the gun. The Village Voice’s Howard Smith described: “Warhol turned and saw the gun. ‘Valerie,’ he yelled. ‘Don't do it! No! No!’ She fired three shots, and Warhol fell to the floor.”
Solanis was the author of SCUM Manifesto, (Society for Cutting Up Men), and was upset with Warhol for not returning a script that she had written and given to him for comment.
Sources:
On This Day: Valerie Solanas Shoots Andy Warhol, by Isabel Cowles.
I Shot Andy Warhol [film] 1996
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