THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Joe Biden loses first wife and daughter in tragic car accident – 1972

Via History.com

Just weeks after being elected the junior senator from Delaware, Joe Biden’s first wife, Neilia, and 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, are killed in a car accident while out shopping for a Christmas tree on December 18, 1972, when a tractor-trailer strikes their vehicle.

The Bidens’ sons, Beau and Hunter, were also in the car and survived with serious injuries. At the time, Beau was 4 years old and suffered multiple broken bones, while Hunter, who was 3, had a fractured skull. Investigations revealed the tractor-trailer broadsided Neilia Biden’s Chevrolet station wagon at a rural intersection in Hockessin, Delaware. Neither driver was found to be at fault for the collision.

The future president, who had recently turned 30, learned of the tragedy while interviewing staff in Washington, D.C. After considering resigning, he ultimately chose to remain in office, and, on January 5, 1973, was sworn in as senator from his sons’ hospital room in Wilmington, Delaware. Throughout his lengthy Senate career, Biden commuted daily from Wilmington to the U.S. Capitol to kiss the boys good morning and goodnight.

“Many people have gone through things like that,” Biden said during a 2015 Yale University commencement speech. “But because I had the incredible good fortune of an extended family, grounded in love and loyalty, imbued with a sense of obligation imparted to each of us, I not only got help. But by focusing on my sons, I found my redemption.”

Neilia, who married Biden in 1966 and played a key role in his campaigns, was honored five years after her death with the dedication of the The Neilia Hunter Biden Park outside the city of Wilmington.

Biden later married Jill Biden in 1977, who became first lady when he assumed the presidency in 2021. The couple have a daughter, Ashley. Beau Biden, a rising political figure himself, died from a brain tumor at the age of 46 in 2015.

In her 2019 memoir, Jill Biden wrote of the family’s annual visits to the cemetery where Neilia and Naomi are buried. “I owed her so much: my loyalty, my gratitude for the gift of these beautiful boys, and, yes, my love,” she wrote.

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11 Comments
Anonymous
Anonymous
December 18, 2023 6:23 am

He was saintly Regular Joe . . . until that tragic day.

Then, everything fell apart, for this good, loving, decent, American family man.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
December 18, 2023 9:29 am

/s

Mountain Rat
Mountain Rat
December 18, 2023 8:05 am

I am convinced she killed herself and her daughter to keep the girl away from that pedo piece of shit.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Mountain Rat
December 18, 2023 9:29 am

Look closely at her face……she looks terrified.

Rick
Rick
  Anonymous
December 18, 2023 11:19 pm

Who wouldn’t, after two bottles of vodka.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
December 18, 2023 8:41 am

Lots more to this story, lots more. Biden was “allegedly” already screwing his current wife when wife number one died. There are also questions about the traffic accident. Biden lied and said that the truck driver was drunk. He wasn’t. His wife drove straight through a stop sign. There have been suggestions it was suicide after she learned she was married to a pedophile sex pervert. Such suicides with mothers killing their kids are not unheard of. At this point, nothing would surprise me.

Biden is the most sick, evil, twisted moron to ever hold public office in the U.S., and that is saying something. Anybody who would even consider voting for this maniac is unclean, a moral leper.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Southern Sage
December 18, 2023 9:30 am

Ah, he was molesting his own daughter.
That’s why wifey looks so horrified, and he looks like the proverbial canary eating cat.

Rev6
Rev6
  Southern Sage
December 18, 2023 11:03 am
Ed
Ed
December 18, 2023 10:30 am

Look at that. FJB was already combing over a bald spot 51 years ago.. Just how old is that fucker anyway?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Ed
December 19, 2023 12:24 am

He’s two pills overdue.

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 19, 2023 12:23 am

What does it say about this man’s reputation when instead of sympathy for such a tragedy, all he gets is disdain and hatred?
I think it says he has lived his life as a greedy selfish piece of shit.
Betcha they throw a big funeral for this asshole.
Betcha they have to secure his burial site behind security fences and armed guards also.
Joey is one body that will definitely be dug up and dragged through the streets.