Smith attracted extensive media attention in both countries as a " Goodwill Ambassador " , becoming known as '' ' America 's Youngest Ambassador ' '' and subsequently participating in peacemaking activities in Japan . With the assistance of her father Arthur ( an academic ) , she wrote a book about her visit to the Soviet Union , '' Journey to the Soviet Union '' , and later became a child actress , hosting a child-orientated special on the 1984 United States presidential election for The Disney Channel and playing a supporting role in the television series '' Lime Street '' , before she was killed at the age of thirteen on August 25 , 1985 in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash
Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808
Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808
Samantha Smith