Andy Warhol

On June 3, 1968, Pop artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol survived an assassination attempt at his studio, the Factory. Radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas opened fire with a handgun, striking Warhol once and critically wounding him, while also grazing art critic and curator 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 feminist tract advocating the eradication of men, and appeared in Warhol’s…