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searchaux" style="display:none">Vietnam war veteran and a son of Walmart founder (1946–2005)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive 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Walton</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1946-10-08</span>)</span>October 8, 1946<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Newport,_Arkansas" title="Newport, Arkansas">Newport, Arkansas</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">June 27, 2005<span style="display:none">(2005-06-27)</span> (aged 58)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Jackson,_Wyoming" title="Jackson, Wyoming">Jackson, Wyoming</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label">Bentonville Cemetery,<br /><a href="/wiki/Bentonville,_Arkansas" title="Bentonville, Arkansas">Bentonville, Arkansas</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Mary Ann Gunn (divorced)<br /><a href="/wiki/Christy_Walton" title="Christy Walton">Christy Walton</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lukas_Walton" title="Lukas Walton">Lukas Walton</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Walton" title="Sam Walton">Sam Walton</a> (father)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Walton" title="Helen Walton">Helen Walton</a> (mother)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._Robson_Walton" title="S. Robson Walton">S. Robson Walton</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Walton" title="Jim Walton">Jim Walton</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Walton" title="Alice Walton">Alice Walton</a> (sister)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelly_Rohrbach" title="Kelly Rohrbach">Kelly Rohrbach</a> (niece-in-law)</li></ul> <p>and see <a href="/wiki/Walton_family" title="Walton family">Walton family</a> </p> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Thomas Walton</b> (October 8, 1946<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – June 27, 2005) was an American war veteran and a son of <a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a> founder <a href="/wiki/Sam_Walton" title="Sam Walton">Sam Walton</a>. He was also the chairman of <a href="/wiki/True_North_Venture_Partners" title="True North Venture Partners">True North Venture Partners</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Venture_capital" title="Venture capital">venture capital</a> firm. Walton cofounded the <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_Scholarship_Fund" title="Children's Scholarship Fund">Children's Scholarship Fund</a>, providing tuition scholarships for disadvantaged youth. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_service_in_the_Vietnam_War">Early life and service in the Vietnam War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_T._Walton&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and service in the Vietnam War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Walton was born in Newport, Arkansas. He graduated from <a href="/wiki/Bentonville_High_School" title="Bentonville High School">Bentonville High School</a> where he was a star <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a> player. Walton went on to attend the <a href="/wiki/College_of_Wooster" title="College of Wooster">College of Wooster</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wooster,_Ohio" title="Wooster, Ohio">Wooster, Ohio</a>. He dropped out of college in 1968 to spend more time playing the flute and enlisted in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a> (after the Vietnamese <a href="/wiki/Tet_Offensive" title="Tet Offensive">Tet Offensive</a>). </p><p>During the Vietnam war, Walton served in the <a href="/wiki/Special_Forces_(United_States_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Forces (United States Army)">Green Berets</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/Military_Assistance_Command,_Vietnam_%E2%80%93_Studies_and_Observations_Group" title="Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group">Studies and Observations Group</a>. He was involved in combat in the <a href="/wiki/A_Shau_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="A Shau Valley">A Shau Valley</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War" title="Laotian Civil War">Laos</a>. During his time in Vietnam, he served in Spike Team Louisiana, of MACV-SOG, and presided as the 1-1 (Assistant team leader.) of his Spike team. ".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Walton later received a <a href="/wiki/Silver_Star" title="Silver Star">Silver Star</a> for bravery in combat. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life">Later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_T._Walton&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After returning from <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>, Walton learned to fly and went to work as a pilot for <a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a>. He later left the company to fly crop-dusters over cotton fields in several southern states and co-founded Satloc, an aerial application company that pioneered the use of GPS technology in agricultural crop-dusting. Walton then moved to <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a> where he founded Corsair Marine,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a company that built <a href="/wiki/Trimaran" title="Trimaran">trimaran</a> sailboats. He also lived in <a href="/wiki/Durango,_Colorado" title="Durango, Colorado">Durango, Colorado</a>, and was an enthusiastic skier, mountain biker, hiker, motorcycle rider, skydiver and scuba diver. </p><p>In 1998, as part of the <a href="/wiki/Philanthropy_Roundtable" title="Philanthropy Roundtable">Philanthropy Roundtable</a>, Walton and friend <a href="/wiki/Theodore_J._Forstmann" title="Theodore J. Forstmann">Ted Forstmann</a> established the <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_Scholarship_Fund" title="Children's Scholarship Fund">Children's Scholarship Fund</a> to provide tuition assistance for low-income families to send their children to private schools.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was an advocate of <a href="/wiki/School_voucher" title="School voucher">school vouchers</a>. For his achievements, he received the <a href="/wiki/William_E._Simon_Prize_for_Philanthropic_Leadership" title="William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership">William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_T._Walton&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Walton_Crash_NPS_Photo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Walton_Crash_NPS_Photo.jpg/250px-Walton_Crash_NPS_Photo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Walton_Crash_NPS_Photo.jpg/330px-Walton_Crash_NPS_Photo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Walton_Crash_NPS_Photo.jpg/500px-Walton_Crash_NPS_Photo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Wreckage of Walton's experimental aircraft at <a href="/wiki/Grand_Teton_National_Park" title="Grand Teton National Park">Grand Teton National Park</a>. Photo taken by the <a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a> on June 27, 2005.</figcaption></figure> <p>Walton died on June 27, 2005, when the <a href="/wiki/CGS_Hawk_Arrow" class="mw-redirect" title="CGS Hawk Arrow">CGS Hawk Arrow</a> <a href="/wiki/Homebuilt_aircraft" title="Homebuilt aircraft">home-built</a> <a href="/wiki/Ultralight_aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Ultralight aircraft">ultralight aircraft</a> (registered as an "<a href="/wiki/Experimental_aircraft" title="Experimental aircraft">experimental aircraft</a>" under <a href="/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration" title="Federal Aviation Administration">FAA</a> regulations) that he was <a href="/wiki/Aviator" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviator">piloting</a> crashed in <a href="/wiki/Jackson,_Wyoming" title="Jackson, Wyoming">Jackson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a>. Walton's plane crashed at 12:20 p.m. local time (18:20 UTC) shortly after taking off from <a href="/wiki/Jackson_Hole_Airport" title="Jackson Hole Airport">Jackson Hole Airport</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ntsb_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ntsb-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board" title="National Transportation Safety Board">National Transportation Safety Board</a> later reported that Walton had improperly reinstalled the rear locking collar on the elevator control torque tube. This allowed the torque tube to move rearward during his flight and loosened the elevator control cable tension. The outcome of the failed repair was an inflight loss of pitch control, without which Walton could not control the aircraft's <a href="/wiki/Flight_dynamics_(fixed-wing_aircraft)" class="mw-redirect" title="Flight dynamics (fixed-wing aircraft)">altitude</a>. </p><p>Shortly before his death, <i><a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a></i> magazine had estimated Walton's net worth to be <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$18.2</span> <a href="/wiki/1000000000_(number)" class="mw-redirect" title="1000000000 (number)">billion</a>, tied with his brother <a href="/wiki/Jim_Walton" title="Jim Walton">Jim</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Forbes_list_of_billionaires" class="mw-redirect" title="Forbes list of billionaires">4th richest person</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 11th-richest person in the world. </p><p>Walton was survived by his wife <a href="/wiki/Christy_Walton" title="Christy Walton">Christy</a> and their son <a href="/wiki/Lukas_Walton" title="Lukas Walton">Lukas</a>. He was previously married to Mary Ann Gunn, who later became a judge in Arkansas.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had two brothers, <a href="/wiki/S._Robson_Walton" title="S. Robson Walton">S. Robson Walton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Walton" title="Jim Walton">Jim Walton</a> and a sister, <a href="/wiki/Alice_Walton" title="Alice Walton">Alice Walton</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_T._Walton&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires#2004" title="The World's Billionaires">The World's Billionaires 2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walton_family" title="Walton family">Walton family</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_T._Walton&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFTedlow2001" class="citation web cs1">Tedlow, Richard S. 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