JFK Seven Days That Made a President 2013 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