Cuban Missile Crisis Mock Trial
It is January of 1963, and the World has had enough of these apocalyptic showdowns between the United States and Soviet Union. The United Nations is hosting a trial of the individuals involved in provoking the Cuban Missile Crisis, and it plans to economic sanctions against whichever country is to blame for the Crisis, and that country will be diplomatically isolated.
Charges
The leaders of the United States of the United States are charging the leaders of the Soviet Union and Cuba with violating world peace through their unsolicited provocation of Nuclear War.
Prosecution
Prosecuting Attorneys
President John F. Kennedy
Attorney General Robert Kennedy
Robert McNamara - Secretary of Defense
Adlai Stevenson - US Ambassador
General Curtis LeMay
Captain Jerry Coffee - U2 Pilot
Ted Sorensen - Kennedy Advisor
Defense
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (Defendant)
Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro (Defendant)
Valerian Zorin - Soviet Ambassador
Sergei Khrushchev - Son of the Soviet Premier
Alexander Alexeev - Soviet Ambassador
Anatoly Dobrynin - Soviet Ambassador
Andrei Gromyko - Soviet Foreign Minister
Rodion Malinovsky - Soviet Defense Minister
General Issa Pliyev
Resources
Robert McNamara and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis Overview and Resources
USA/USSR Debate in the United Nations (1962)
Interview with Sergei Khrushchev
9 Most Important Lessons to Take from the Cuban Missile Crisis