1988 INTERVIEW WITH JAMES HOOD ON WHERE HE WAS ON NOVEMBER 22 1963 WHEN JOHN F. KENNEDY JFK WAS ASSASSINATED. HOOD RECALLS EXACTLY WHERE HE WAS IN DETROIT WHEN HE FIRST GOT THE NEWS OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION ..VIVID RECALL OF THOSE MOMENTS - WATCHING TV AT A POLISH RESTAURANT - JAMES HOOD was one of the first African Americans to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963 and was made famous when Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked him from enrolling at the all-white university.