MUMBAI: Infotainment channel History TV18 is kicking off the ministries ?The Kennedys? tonight 16 July at 10 pm.

The eight part series deals with one of America?s most famous political families. It stars Greg Kinnear as JFK, Barry Pepper as his brother Bobby Kennedy, Katie Holmes as his wife Jackie Kennedy and Tom Wilkinson as Joseph Kennedy Sr.

The political saga unfolds the story of a manipulative father who believes in dictating the course of his sons? lives and determined to exemplify his ambitions through them. The story trails the life sequences of his sons and how they try to balance the dictates of a domineering father and their fortitude to carve their own identity.

It offers a chronicle of tangled relationships in one of the most turbulent periods of the modern age. The story reflects examples of achievements and personal failures, about loyalty and love, resentment and betrayal. It is about people imbued with great gifts and burdened by great flaws, about success of Biblical proportions and tragedy worthy of the Greeks.