I'm interested in your first memories of Samantha Smith- before browsing comments for memory triggers or doing a search, or reading further, please.
Then do the search if you need to or just check out a few of the videos (eg. Youtube) available (see below for a couple of examples), and then please take the poll.
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Here's a clue: She became suddenly famous when she was 10 and died when she was 13 in 1985, 25 years ago, and then she seemed to disappear. If you were her age then you would be about 38.
Here's an interview with Ted Koppel when she was 10: http://www.youtube.com/...
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The movie "Amazing Grace and Chuck" with Gregory Peck was loosely based on on the Samantha Smith story. She was played by a boy and Alex English, a 6' 6" African American NBA star.
As the Senate gets ready to vote on START, I remembered Samantha Smith, the anti-Reagan.