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Smith, Samantha Reed

People (non-government), SocietyBy JimMarch 19, 20121 Comment
Sculpture of Samantha Smith (2001)

(1972-1985) was born on June 29, 1972 in Houlton, and died in a plane crash on August 15, 1985. At age ten, she wrote a letter to then Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov expressing her concern over the possibilities of nuclear war. Andropov replied that the Soviets did not want war and invited her to visit him.

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