"You Asked For It" Televised 1957 Tour of USAFA

From one of the longest running reality television shows in history, "You Asked For It", a visit to the United States Air Force Academy in 1957.

Editorial note: Although the television show states the tour occurred in 1957, the first graduating class of the United States Air Force Academy did not move from Lowery to the permanent site in Colorado Spring until the Fall of 1958. The Cotton Bowl game shown in the video was played on Jan 1, 1959. Please keep this in mind as you view the video that the chronology is not precise and fully not from 1957.

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