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She walked into Andy Warhol's studio and shot him through the lungs, liver and stomach. When a reporter told her he might die, she said one word: "Good." She got three years. She spent most of them in a hospital for the criminally insane. Warhol wore a surgical corset for the rest of his life. That's her in the video, June 1968: "I'm looking forward to going to jail." June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto and a bit player in one of Warhol's films, rode the elevator up to the Factory with a gun. Warhol was on the phone. Her first two shots missed. The third tore through his spleen, stomach, liver, esophagus and lungs. Then she shot the art critic Mario Amaya and walked out. Doctors cut Warhol open for five hours and kept him alive. That evening she walked up to a cop near Times Square and turned herself in. Her reason: Warhol "had too much control in my life." In court she went further: "I consider that a moral act. And I consider it immoral that I missed." The judge struck her words from the record and sent her to Bellevue for observation. She never saw a trial for attempted murder. She was declared incompetent and sent to Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Diagnosis: chronic paranoid schizophrenia. In June 1969, found fit, she pleaded guilty to "reckless assault with intent to harm." Three years, one already served. In April 1971 she escaped from Matteawan. She was caught, served out the sentence and walked free that June. Then she started calling Warhol again. In December 1971 she was arrested for threatening the owner of a publishing house. The charges were dropped because she was mentally ill, and she went back into a hospital. In 1973 she escaped that one too. Warhol died in 1987, at 58, after gallbladder surgery. When someone told Solanas, she said: "I don't feel anything." Five months later she was found dead of pneumonia in a San Francisco hotel room, alone, at 52. Three bullets. Three years. A corset for life. Sick enough for a hospital, or sane enough to mean every word?