President Biden honored Franco Harris, the Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame running back who died Wednesday, by recalling the kindness he showed the Biden family in 1972 after the future president’s wife and daughter were killed in a car accident.
On Dec. 18, 1972, Mr. Biden’s wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed while Christmas shopping in Delaware. The station wagon was hit by a semi-trailer truck and Mr. Biden’s sons Hunter Biden, aged 2, and Beau Biden, aged 3, suffered severe injuries.
As Mr. Biden tells it, days later he left the Delaware hospital that was caring for his sons to purchase a Christmas tree for their room.