In memory of Maurice J. Cullinane and with deep gratitutude for his service and leadership, the DC Police Memorial offers a donation thank you gift that honors him and the Pullitzer prize-winning photograph taken of him in 1957.
Cullinane, who passed away on March 2, 2023, was Chief of Police for the DC Metropolitan Police Department from December 1974 – January 1978. He is known by many for the moment in time when he publicly represented the MPD with kindness and leadership one autumn day in 1957 by a photographer as he worked during a Chinese cultural parade. A little boy raced into the street, trying to join up with the Chinese lion passing by while fireworks were going off all around. Then a patrolman, Cullinane could foresee a disaster in the making. Photographer William Beall, snapped his photo just as Cullinane bends down to gently intervene. The photo transfixed the public worldwide and won a Pulitzer Prize.
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