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The Samantha Smith Foundation, formed to encourage better relations with the Soviet Union, has fallen on hard times, a victim of money problems and, ironically, improved relations between the superpowers.

June 10, 1988

A Soviet diplomat and actor Robert Wagner were among about 1,000 persons paying final respects Wednesday to Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl who traveled to the Soviet Union for peace.

Aug. 29, 1985

I was stunned to learn about the tragic death of Samantha Smith.

Sept. 7, 1985

Samantha Smith, a Maine girl who went to the Soviet Union in 1983 as guest of the Soviet leader, was awarded a posthumous Peace Pilgrim Prize” here Wednesday.

Oct. 24, 1985

A settlement was reached in a $50-million lawsuit filed against a commuter airline by the mother of Samantha Smith, the Maine schoolgirl and peace envoy killed in a 1985 plane crash.

Jan. 18, 1989

The first draft of a script for a film on Samantha Smith’s life as a young diplomat is complete, her mother said Friday.

March 23, 1987

Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose wish for peace led to a highly publicized tour of the Soviet Union in 1983 as the guest of Yuri V.

Aug. 26, 1985

Soviet schoolgirl Katerina Lycheva, saying she wants an “Earth without weapons,” flew to the United States today on a peace tour in memory of Samantha Smith, the American youngster who visited the Soviet Union in 1983.

March 20, 1986

We tend to think of child prodigies mainly in terms of achievements in music, chess and mathematics.

Sept. 7, 1985

A model of a statue of Samantha Smith was unveiled at a shopping center today, less than four months after she died in a plane crash.

Dec. 17, 1985