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Article: Remembering Phil Livingston.(Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems Co.)(Biography)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- April 14, 2008
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Kevin Downey
Phil Livingston, a 28-year veteran at Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems, had a thing for electricity. It was just a natural curiosity that led him as a child to rewire the lights on his family's Christmas tree at his home in upstate New York. Years later, he rewired all of the electricity in his historic New Jersey home, and he'd do the same for just about anybody who asked.
Livingston, who passed away in 2006 from bladder cancer, was the eighth and last in a line of Philip Livingstons stretching back to the New York senator who signed the Declaration of Independence. This Livingston showed his independence in another way. He parlayed ...