[lbo-talk] Goodnight John-boy

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jun 30 10:26:10 PDT 2005


This scumbag was big on vouchers & school privatization.

Sometimes you gotta applaud rich folks' propensity to fly their own planes.

Doug

Tommy Kelly wrote:


>John Thomas Walton, (October 8, 1946 - June 27, 2005), was a son of Wal-Mart
>founder Sam Walton. He was the chairman of True North Partners, a venture
>capital firm. On June 27, 2005 Walton died when the CGS Hawk Arrow [1]
>homebuilt aircraft (Experimental Aircraft under FAA regulation) that he was
>piloting crashed in Jackson, Wyoming. Walton's plane crashed at 12:20 pm
>local time (1820 GMT) shortly after taking off from Jackson Hole Airport.
>
>Just before his death, Walton was estimated to be worth US$18.2 billion by
>Forbes magazine and he was tied with his brother Jim as the 4th richest
>person in the United States [2] and 11th-richest person in the world.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Walton
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