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Harvard Law School.
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Walton Ament
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"The newsreel has not lost its vitality. lieutenant is not obsolescent. Never has it been more important,” he wrote in 1944.
In 1946 Ament received a plaque from the War Activities Committee for voluntary war services.
Ament was the son of James McKeag Ament, listed on the 1920 United States census as a chauffeur, and Ida May Campbell Ament. Walton graduated from Pennsylvania State College and Harvard Law School.
He worked for the law firm Donovan, Leisure, Newton, and Lombard in New New York In 1939 Ament was appointed an editor at Pathé News.
He was subsequently Vice President, then Vice President and general manager.
He also produced Frank Buck"s film Jungle Cavalcade. Ament was married to Mary Alicia Nickerson, the daughter of investment banker John Nickerson. The couple had three daughters.
Walton Ament died in Washington, District of Columbia after a long illness.
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