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    Here's who's on Biden's guest list for the State of the Union

    The invitees include cancer survivors and their families, a veteran and his caregivers, a health care professional from a Navajo reservation, a Holocaust survivor and more.
    by Dustin Jones Feb 07, 2023 5 minutes

    While President Biden speaks to the nation in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, a handful of VIPs will watch with first lady Jill Biden from a viewing box in the Capitol. Collectively, they illustrate different themes that Biden will highlight in his speech.

    Among the guests: a cancer survivor, an activist fighting for clean water, a mother who doubles as a caregiver to her disabled veteran husband and a Holocaust survivor.

    The most recognizable names

    Tyre Nichols' mother and stepfather

    RowVaughn and Rodney Wells are the mother and stepfather of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old unarmed Black man who was brutally beaten by police and who later died while hospitalized in his home city of Memphis, Tennessee.

    Graphic footage of the incident was released at the end of January and a "painful reminder" of the need for law enforcement reform to ensure incidents like this never happen again.

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