Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol in June 1968 at his Factory

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In the early afternoon of June 3, Valerie Solanas, a thirty-two-year-old playwright with a bit part in the 1967 Warhol production I, a Man, as well as the founder and sole member of the Society for Cutting Up Men (SCUM), took the elevator up to the new Warhol Factory on Union Square. The garrulous superstar Viva had just phoned in to tell Andy that she was right now at Mr. Kenneth’s swanky Upper East Side hair salon, trying out coiffures for a small part in John Schlesinger’s New York movie Midnight Cowboy, when she heard gunshots. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1151