NEW LOOK INTO NEILIA BIDEN'S DEATH

A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly -- and I never pursued it --
DRANK HIS LUNCH instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my
family and killed my wife instantly, and killed my daughter
instantly, and hospitalized my two sons, with what were thought to
be at the time permanent, fundamental injuries."
CBS anchor Katie Couric, who had repeated Biden’s erroneous account
on the air during the Democratic Convention and again during the
inauguration in January stated:
“I was wrong to repeat it and to trust the sources that reported it
… I am deeply sorry that I have caused your family additional pain
because I’m sure it was a burden for your father and all those who
loved him.”
Biden told a similar story when addressing an audience at the Bob
Carpenter Center at the University of Delaware a few days after the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks.
To the loved ones of the victims, there is nothing really we can
say to erase this tragedy. And, those of you who think it's
presumptuous of me to say that… in a different circumstance, I
got one of those phone calls. I got one of those phone calls like
Davis Sezna got. I got a phone call saying, "Your wife's dead;
your daughter's dead." And I've only said that three times in public
before. But, I say it here because it's so important for you to
understand. I got one of those phone calls. It was an errant
driver WHO STOPPED TO DRINK INSTEAD OF DRIVE and hit a
tractor-trailer, hit my children and my wife and killed them. It
wasn't an airplane, but it was a phone call: "They're dead." And, I
can tell you from experience, and some of you can, too, that
feeling that inside your chest is a black hole and you're being
sucked inside it. I know from experience there's nothing in the
near term we can do to bring solace, relief or peace to those
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There was a liquor store nearby the crash site but no alcohol was
recovered from the rig or in Dunn's bloodstream.
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