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In Russian - "Samantha Smith: The Girl Who Changed the Relations Between the USA and the USSR" in Realnoe Vremya, July 28, 2024.
In Russian - Book presentation of America's Youngest Ambassador at the White June Festival in Arkhangelsk, Russia. June 23, 2024.
Don Kimball interviews Lena Nelson, author of America's Youngest Ambassador. Part 1 (July 19, 2023). Part 2 (July 26, 2023).
New York Post, 6/18/2023: The girl who tried to bring peace between the US and the Soviet Union
WABI TV 5, June 13, 2023: Author Lena Nelson talks with TV 5
Cold War Conversations podcast - June 2, 2023: The 10 year old girl who tried to stop a nuclear war (293)
June 1, 2023 - America's Youngest Ambassador: The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith's Lasting Message of Peace is now available wherever books are sold!
The Kennebec Historical Society Newsletter: 1980s Peace Activist Subject of New Book
The Christian Science Monitor 3/21/2023: A Young Cold War Envoy's Enduring Innocence by Clara Germani.
CBS SUNDAY MORNING 1/29/2023: Samantha Smith, the fifth-grader from Maine who became "America's Littlest Diplomat"
America's Littlest Diplomat - Samantha Smith's story on CBS' Sunday Morning, January 29, 2023.
Listen to Samantha Smith: Death of a Peacemaker on CBS' Mobituaries podcast with Mo Rocca.
Watch Maine State Museum explore a recent visit from the CBS Sunday Morning and sharing about the Samantha Smith Collection.
Samantha's story will be featured on CBS' Mobituaries podcast with Mo Rocca on January 2023. Here, in the latest Mobits Extra at 33:31, you can get a little taste of what's to come.
America's Youngest Ambassador: The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith's Lasting Message of Peace by Lena Nelson is coming out with Down East Books on June 1, 2023! Pre-order your copy today!
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Read "Andropov's Gamble: Samantha Smith and Soviet Soft Power" by Anton Fedyashin of the American University in Washington, DC
Our Russian speaking visitors can read the chapter on Samantha in "Citizen Diplomats" in Russian (translated by Victor Matrosov) - Part 1 and Part 2. Thank you, Victor!
Visit the website's FB page to see an April 1983 article by Jack Weible.
Read Children Diplomacy During the Late Cold War: Samantha Smith's Visit of the 'Evil Empire' by Matthias Neumann (University of East Anglia) in History.
Read The Surprising Story of the American Girl Who Broke Through the Iron Curtain at Smithsonian.com
Read Long after Samantha Smith's death, her Cold War message of peace lives on on NewsCenterMaine.com
Watch Samantha Smith's Story on NewsCenterMaine.com
Read Soviet Leader Writes to Maine Fifth Grader on Politico.com.
Please, like and share Samantha's official Facebook page!
Thank you to Ekaterina Dobrynina, granddaughter of Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to US (1962 to 1986) for sharing the photos of Samantha's visit to the Soviet Embassy in December of 1984.
"Life After Samantha" published in Yankee Magazine (1988) just added to the Archives/Press/1986-1990.
Watch Samantha Smith on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - July 28, 1983 on the SamanthaSmithINFO YouTube channel.
New video, Samantha Smith in the audience at the 8th Soviet National Sports Festival - 1983 on the SamanthaSmithINFO YouTube channel.
Natasha Kashirina Remembers her friend Samantha Smith.
Samantha Smith Challenge - Challenge your students to make a difference in their world!
In 1983 a KJ Reporter Told the World About Samantha Smith. Read.
Samantha Smith in Charge in Charge. Video.
Exhibit Honors America's Youngest Ambassador on 30th Anniversary of Her Death - Maine Public Broadcasting. Listen.
Samantha Smith on The Today Show and on The Phil Donahue Show. Video.
SamanthaSmithinfo YouTube Channel updated. Video.
Celebrating Samantha Smith. Video.
Exhibit Pays Tribute to Late Elementary School Student Who Penned a Letter to the Soviet Leader. Video.
Exhibit Honors Samantha Smith. Video.
An exhibit opening on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at the Maine State Museum seeks to pay tribute to Samantha Smith on the 30th anniversary of her tragic death. It will feature photographs by the Russian photographer Vladimir Mashatin. Read about it here.
Watch To Russia With Love on our YouTube channel - September 13, 2014.
Watch Samantha and the Soviets TV special - April, 23, 2014.
"Unlikely Foreign Ambassadors" on Yahoo News, September 9, 2013.
Article for the 30th Anniversary of Samantha's trip by Prabir Barua in The Daily Suprobhat Bangladesh in Chittagong, Bangladesh, August, 2013. You can also access the article online.
Mikhail Gorbachev Reflects on America's Youngest Ambassador, Samantha Smith by Lena Nelson - Bangor Daily News, July 10, 2013.
Smith Family Archive brings to you photographs of Samantha from the personal collection of Samantha's mother, Jane Smith. There you will find photographs of Samantha as a toddler, a school girl, a teenager and of her trips to the USSR and Japan.
Big 'thank you' to Laurie LaBar, Chief Curator of History and Decorative Arts at the Maine State Museum for giving us a glimpse of the Samantha Smith Collection at the Maine State Museum.
"Samantha Smith Goes to Washington" is a 1984 Disney Special in which Samantha interviews presidential candidates. It appears on SamanthaSmith.info YouTube channel courtesy of the show's producer, Arnold Shapiro.
Thank you to Ryuichi Mori who shared these photographs of Samantha's trip to the Children's Symposium in Kobe, Japan. View here >>