William "CornPop" Morris (died age 73 in 2016) was a member of a 1960's crew called the Romans. On September 14th 2019, Joe Biden gave a speech that went viral in which he recounted the time that he and CornPop almost got into a tussle. ^[undefined]

On September 14th 2019, Joe Biden gave a speech to commemorate the facility in Brown-Burton-Winchester Park being renamed the Joseph R. Biden Jr. Aquatic Center.

During the summer of '62 Biden was the only white lifegaurd to have worked at the center.

In his own words:

"I wanted to get more involved.

I'd turn on the television and I'd see and listen to Dr. Martin Luther King and others, but I didn't know any black people.

So, I wanted to work here."

Some people scoffed at the story and wrote it off as a fantasy.

But it was actually first reported in 2010 and Wilmington mayor Dennis Williams confirmed the report, saying that he heard about the incident the day after it occurred.