Overview

• The first episode aired Saturday at 9 p.m. ET, kicking off a three-week run with follow-up installments on August 16 and 23.
• Episode one, “The Boy Who Would Be King,” examines his childhood burden as the son of an assassinated president and features a never-before-heard audio clip of him at age three.
• Producers weave decades of rare archival footage with new interviews featuring family members and figures such as Cindy Crawford, Robert De Niro, Tina Brown and Kurt Andersen.
• Later episodes will chronicle Kennedy’s media ventures, spotlighting his 1995 launch of George magazine and its record-setting half-million-copy debut.
• The series will conclude by tracing his public romances, 1996 marriage to Carolyn Bessette and their deaths in a 1999 plane crash.