JFK: Seven Days That Made a President investigates the seven key days in JFKs life that helped shape his character and have come to define him. They include the day he nearly died as a teenager from a mystery illness; the day, as a PT boat captain his boat was sunk by a Japanese destroyer killing two of his crew; the first televised presidential debate with Richard Nixon, his birthday party in New York with Marilyn Monroe; the Cuban Missile Crisis.