John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States and the youngest to die during his presidency. The Kennedy miniseries chronicles the thousand days of JF Kennedy's rule - Cuba's failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, raging race riots, the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam and the Cuban Missile Crisis. His private life is also covered in detail - his relationship with his wife Jackie and his family, the tragic death of his son and the many women in his life, closely monitored by the FBI under the all-seeing eye of the evil J. Edgar Hoover .