The Totally True Saga of Joe Biden and Corn Pop

By Dan O'Donnell

September 16, 2019

Over the weekend, a clip of Joe Biden telling an anecdote about his youth resurfaced online. It seems that while working as a lifeguard in 1962, Biden confronted a gang leader named Corn Pop, stood his ground, and in so doing helped to heal the racial divide of pre-Civil Rights Era America.

Dan O'Donnell had some fun with this totally, absolutely real story about Joe Biden and Corn Pop--two unsung heroes in the fight for equality.

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