Camera location	38° 15′ 43.2″ N, 121° 55′ 37.2″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	38.262000; -121.927000

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The photograph was distributed by the Associated Press on May 7, 1974 and published in many newspapers with no copyright notice, neither on the newspaper as a whole (including the front page, masthead, and editorial page), nor on the photograph specifically. For example:

• The Sacramento Bee
• The San Francisco Examiner
• The Plain Dealer
• The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin)
• The Cincinnati Enquirer
• Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
• The Missoulian (Montana)
• The News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina)
• Palo Alto Times (California)
• The Idaho Statesman
• The Wichita Eagle

No instances were found of the photograph being published with proper copyright notice on that day, indicating that it was distributed by the AP without notice.

Also published without copyright notice in (1976) The Instant It Happened, Category:New York: H.N. Abrams & The Associated Press, p. 239 . (The book contained only an "All Rights Reserved" notice, which is not a valid copyright notice according to Ch2100 pg75: ...“All Rights Reserved”... Such words are not required to reserve U.S. copyright and are not considered to be a substitute for the copyright notice required under the Copyright Act of 1909..)