English: Part of the photoessay Boat of No Smiles, about a group of Vietnamese boat people seeking refuge.
As captioned in the Southern Illinoisan: "A look of despair shows on the face of this elderly refugee"
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"Eddie Adams", British Journalism Review, volume 20, issue 2, June 2009
Originally distributed by the Associated Press and published in numerous newspapers on November 30, 1977.
Cropped from the source to reflect the portion of the image that was published in 1977.
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No instance was found of the photograph being published with a proper copyright notice in 1977. Examples of newspapers where it was published without copyright notice:
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