And they weren’t sure that my sons would live.”ĭuring a campaign speech in 2008, Biden also spoke openly about seeing his children in hospital after the crash. (AP) President Joe Biden on Saturday commemorated the 49th anniversary of the car crash that killed his first wife and infant daughter, visiting their graves at the Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church. My wife and three children were Christmas shopping, a tractor trailer broadsided them and killed my wife and killed my daughter.

“While I was in Washington hiring staff, I got a phone call. “Six weeks after my election, my whole world was altered forever,” he said. Speaking about the tragedy in a speech at Yale in 2015, Biden described the moment he took that call. Hunter and Beau, who were four and three years old, were in critical condition. While out Christmas shopping, Biden received a phone call telling him Neilia and Naomi - who was just 13 months old - had been killed in a car accident. Just weeks after he was elected, while Biden was in Washington DC interviewing people to work in his new office, he received a phone call that would change his life forever. How did Joe Biden’s wife Neilia and daughter Naomi die?

They succeeded and, in November that year Biden, then 30, won the seat from Republican incumbent J Caleb Boggs.

In 1972, Biden ran for a Delaware seat in the US senate, with his wife playing a key role in his campaign. The couple went on to have three children - sons Beau and Hunter and daughter Naomi, who was nicknamed Amy. Biden' first wife Neilia and their daughter Naomi are buried alongside his oldest son Beau Biden, who died of cancer in 2015, at a cemetery in Wilmington, Delaware.

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