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Samantha Reed Smith (June 29, 1972 – August 25, 1985) was an American peace activist and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous for her anti-war outreaches during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Samantha A. Smith is an American actress. She is known for her role as Mary Winchester on Supernatural.
May 7, 2024 · Samantha Smith was an American peace activist and child actress, celebrated for giving children around the world a voice in the volatile Cold War during the 1980s. In December 1982, when she was 10 years old, Smith wrote a letter to the new leader of the Soviet Union, Yury Andropov.
Jan 29, 2023 · In 1982, at one of the frostiest moments in the Cold War, a fifth-grade girl from Manchester, Maine named Samantha Smith wrote a letter to Soviet Union Leader Yuri Andropov.
Nov 13, 2009 · Samantha Smith, the 13-year-old “ambassador” to the Soviet Union, dies in a plane crash. Smith was best known for writing to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov in 1982 and visiting the...
May 10, 2018 · American girl Samantha Smith (center) visited the U.S.S.R. on the invitation of General Secretary Yuri Andropov in July 1983. Here, she's visiting the Artek pioneer camp. Wikimedia Commons
Jul 7, 2023 · Samantha Smith, at just 10 years old, wrote a letter to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, seeking to comprehend the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Her courageous act...
In 1982, amidst the Cold War, Samantha Smith, a 10-year-old from Manchester, ME, wrote to the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov about her fear of nuclear war. When a response arrived, and an invitation to visit, she embarked on a journey that brought the two nations closer together.
Thirty years ago, in the summer of 1983, 11-year-old Samantha Smith from Manchester, Maine, was the most famous little girl in the world. Images of a freckle-faced smiling Samantha holding a letter from the Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov and later touring the Soviet Union went out on all news wires.
Like millions of American children during the Cold War, 10-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, was terrified of getting nuked by the Russians. News reports and TV specials about nuclear bombs, missile defense systems, and “mutually assured destruction” were commonplace, and Smith got more and more frightened about the possibility ...
