President Joe Biden lost his first wife and college sweetheart Neila Hunter Biden in a car accident in 1972 along with their 1-year-old daughter named Naomi.
Their sons Beau and Hunter were critically injured but survived. According to Vogue, Joe spoke of the tragedy in a Yale commencement speech, and explained, “Six weeks after my election [for senator] my whole world was altered forever.
While I was in Washington hiring staff, I got a phone call. My wife and three children were Christmas shopping, a tractor-trailer broadsided them and killed my wife and killed my daughter.
And they weren’t sure that my sons would live.” While the experience was tragic, Hunter and Beau encouraged their dad to marry again and three years later Joe met Ji.
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