And they weren’t sure that my sons would live. 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. 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. Bidens former wife, Neilia, was taking their. 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. Neilia and Naomi were tragically killed in a car crash in 1972, just a few days after Joe Biden was elected as the junior U.S. Senate in Delaware when his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, decided to take the couple’s three children to get a Christmas tree. 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. It was 1972, and Joe Biden had just been elected to the U.S. Mr Biden, 80, brought up the tragedy during a visit to Tel Aviv on. How did Joe Biden’s wife Neilia and daughter Naomi die? President Joe Biden recalled the car crash that killed in wife and daughter in 1972, while meeting with Israeli first responders. They succeeded and, in November that year Biden, then 30, won the seat from Republican incumbent J Caleb Boggs. 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. 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.