Michael Cullen

Released
Date of birth:1941
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1960s
State:Wisconsin
Time Imprisoned:
8 Months 30 Days
Support
Anti-War Milwaukee 14 Catholic Worker Movement
Michael Cullen

Biography

Michael Cullen was a 26-year-old Irish-born director of Casa Maria House of Hospitality, the Milwaukee Catholic Worker, and one of the principal organizers of the Milwaukee 14 raid on September 24, 1968. After imprisonment at the federal prison in Sandstone, Minnesota he was deported to Ireland in 1974 in connection with his immigration status. He continued Catholic Worker peace organizing in Ireland for the rest of his life.

Photo credit

Michael D. Cullen, eleventh from left in the captioned Milwaukee 14 photograph, September 24, 1968. Photograph by Lynn Howell/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, reproduced by WUWM. Rectangular crop.

Case

Charges: Destruction of Selective Service records and interference with the Selective Service System (18 USC2071 and 50 App USC462(a))
Arrested: Sep 24, 1968
Sentenced: 1970
Incarcerated: May 15, 1970
Released: Feb 14, 1971
Sentence: Sentenced in 1970 to one year in federal prison for the September24,1968 Milwaukee draft-board action. Father Don Ranly reported service at Sandstone from May15,1970 until release February14,1971. These dates describe that prison term; the earlier1968 pretrial detention is separate. The appellate decision upheld the federal convictions in December1971.
Convicted: Yes

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