An honorary young pioneer.
The original David Hogg.
Yup. She was on 'Nightline' with Ted Koppel and even the Johnny Carson show.
80's media circus you couldn't avoid pushing for nuclear disarmament.
They followed her around the Soviet Union with breathless reports of what she thought.
She didn't actually get to meet Andropov, he had already fallen ill and she had to settle for a phone call.
She was killed in a plane crash in 85' otherwise you would have heard much, much more out of her.
Some conspiracy theories at the time for that, pushed by the Soviets.
An honorary young pioneer.
Samantha Smith strikes me as having just been greatly naive, not a petty vindictive jerk like Hogg.