Biden honors the memory of his first wife and baby daughter who died in a 1972 car crash
President Joe Biden is remembering his first wife and baby daughter 52 years after they were killed in a car crash in Delaware
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday honored the memory of his first wife and baby daughter 52 years after they were killed in a car crash in Delaware.
Biden's wife, Neilia, 30, had taken their kids — 1-year-old daughter Naomi and sons Beau and Hunter — out Christmas tree shopping when the car she was driving was broadsided by a tractor-trailer. Neilia and Naomi were killed. Beau, 3, and Hunter, 2, were gravely injured.
The president, his current wife, Jill, son Hunter and other members of the family attended a private memorial Mass early Wednesday at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church near Biden's home in Delaware. After the service, the family, with Jill Biden holding hands with Hunter's young son, Beau, walked to the cemetery behind the church where the gravesites are located.
Biden speaks often about the personal loss, sharing the story as recently as last week. He told of being in Washington with then-Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., when he got a phone call.
