The Shooting
On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Warhol in the chest. Solanas had previously founded a "group" (she was its only member) called the "Society for Cutting Up Men" (S.C.U.M.) and authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a work of radical feminist literature that has since found something of a following both from those who take it seriously and those who find it inadvertently humorous. Arrested the day after the assault (coincidentally, the day that Robert F. Kennedy was shot), she said, "He had too much control over my life." Warhol was seriously wounded and suffered physical effects for the rest of his life. He had, for instance, to wear a corset to support himself. The shooting had a profound effect on Warhol's life and art, and The Factory scene became much more tightly controlled.
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