Andy Warhol's Utah Stand-In

Pair of former student reporters chat with KSL-TV about the 1967 lecture that never was.

Fun piece from Salt Lake City NBC affiliate KSL-TV.

Reporter Sloan Schrage sat down with a couple of former University of Utah student reporters to revisit the time Andy Warhol was booked for an October 2, 1967 lecture at the school but instead, sent an imposter. In those days, there was no Google, so as suspicions grew after the event, it took longer than it would have today for the detective work:

At the end of October, a New York-based photographer came to Salt Lake to take photographs of the University of Utah Repertory Dance Theater for national publications.

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