A Second Look at Andy Warhol's College Scam
It happened at the Rochester Institute of Technology, too.
Earlier this year, we wrote about a Utah TV station’s sit-down with a pair of former University of Utah student reporters who helped uncover a late 1960s Andy Warhol ruse. Warhol sent to their campus, and separate speaking engagements at several other western universities, a duded up impostor – Allen Midgette.
As a reader informed us this week, this also happened closer to FishbowlNY home. In March 1967, a story on the front page of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s student newspaper Reporter was headlined “Warhol Attracts Large Group at Student Activities Hour.”
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