June 20, 1963 - The family of the slain integration leader, Medgar Evers, met President Kennedy at the White House today. Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall made his official limousine available to the Evers family for a sightseeing tour, and the White House was the first stop. Mrs. Evers was accompanied by two children, Darryl, 9 years old, and Reena Denise, 8, and Mr. Evers’s brother, Charles. Charles Evers has been appointed by the NAACP to take over his brother’s job as field secretary for Mississippi. Medgar Evers, buried yesterday in Arlington National Cemetery, was killed by a sniper’s bullet at his home in Jackson, Miss., June 12. The meeting with the President during the White House visit was unscheduled. Mr. Kennedy gave Darryl a PT boat tie clasp and Reena Denise a gold bracelet with a single charm depicting a PT boat on a blue ocean.
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