Pinning of Colonel Emblem Ceremony
Former President Harry S. Truman pins a Colonel's emblem on new Colonel John Riffle at the Truman Library. From left to right, Colonel John Nordyke, Rufus Burrus (partly obscured), Colonel John A. Riffle, former President Harry S. Truman, and Kansas City Mayor H. Roe Bartle. Col. Nordyke visited the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence to watch the former President pin the Colonel's emblem on new Colonel Riffle.