The attempted murder of Andy Warhol returns in a June 4, 1983, diary entry as an anniversary approaching in ordinary time. Warhol connects the fifteenth anniversary of the day he was shot with the anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s killing, then turns to a note left at his new building and the quiet end of the evening. The brief recollection makes the shooting present through its recurrence on the calendar rather than through a description of the attack.

An Approaching Anniversary

Warhol writes that it is around the time of the fifteenth anniversary of the day Robert Kennedy was killed and he was shot. The sentence places the two events side by side as markers of the same remembered period, without supplying further details about the shooting. In this entry, the attack appears as a date that returns: its significance lies in the anniversary’s proximity, not in a narrated reconstruction of violence.

The New Building

The anniversary note is followed by a letter found at the new building, bearing a neighborly welcome and signed by Crazy Matty. Warhol records that Matty was living a few blocks away at the Hotel Seville. The entry does not characterize the letter as a threat or connect it to the earlier shooting; its significance here is the juxtaposition of a personal memory of violence with an encounter in the neighborhood.

An Uneventful Close

After noting the letter and Matty’s nearby address, Warhol says he went to bed early and leaves the matter there. That abrupt, unelaborated ending gives the entry its shape: a major past danger is acknowledged in a single sentence, while the day’s immediate events receive only a brief record. The shooting remains consequential as a memory, but this entry does not turn its anniversary into a new crisis.