English: Part of the photoessay Boat of No Smiles, about a group of Vietnamese boat people seeking refuge.
As captioned in the San Angelo Standard-Times: "Numb and weeping in despair, these Vietnamese refugees watch as a Thai marine police boat casts them adrift in the Gulf of Siam. They had escaped earlier in November from Vietnam to what they thought would be freedom, but Thai police refused to allow them to come ashore."
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"Boat of No Smiles", Time 100 Photos, via Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Originally distributed by the Associated Press and published in numerous newspapers on November 30, 1977.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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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