President-Elect Joe Biden Marks 48th Anniversary Of Deaths Of First Wife, Baby Daughter
WILMINGTON, Del. (CBS/AP) -- President-elect Joe Biden went to church in Wilmington on Friday morning to mark a solemn anniversary. Today is the 48th anniversary of the accident that killed his first wife and baby daughter.
Neilia Biden and the couple's 13-month old daughter, Naomi, were killed when their car was struck by a tractor-trailer as she took the kids to pick out a Christmas tree.
Sons Hunter and Beau were seriously injured. They were a year and a day apart in age, at 3 and 4.
Joe Biden had just been elected to the Senate and was in Washington setting up his new office at the time of the accident.
Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, attended the Friday morning service in Delaware at St. Joseph on the Brandywine, a Roman Catholic church. The campus of the church contains a large parish cemetery. After Mass, the Bidens walked to the gravesite markers to pay their respects.
The Bidens will receive the coronavirus vaccine on Monday.
(© Copyright 2020 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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