AFL-CIO's Trumka Likens Political Atmosphere to Time of Kennedy Assassination

National Journal reports this from Thursday, October 14:

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka today said that the heated right-wing rhetoric aimed at President Obama reminds him of the vitriol that greeted John F. Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963.

Trumka, the nation's top union official, said that the anti-Obama views aired by conservative commentators like Glenn Beck constitutes "hate" in his mind and that he fears it could incite violence in these frustrating economic times.

"Our country's been there a couple of times before, and with one exception, we've always taken the high road," Trumka told National Journal. "You remember when John Kennedy got off the plane in Dallas, Texas, there were people on the airwaves talking about doing violence to the president. And what happened? That kind of stuff didn't help our country, and we want to make sure that the anger gets turned into action, and it becomes unifying and not dividing and that we get hope and not hate."

You can't say Richard Trumka doesn't know about violence.