page_title: Timeline of the Gerald Ford presidency (1976)
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the Gerald Ford presidency (1976) / June
caption_attribution_description: English: This photograph depicts President Gerald R. Ford listening during a meeting following the assassinations of Ambassador to Lebanon Francis E. Meloy, Jr. and Economic Counselor Robert O. Waring in Beirut, Lebanon.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the Presidency of Gerald Ford from January 1, 1976, to December 31, 1976.
context_section_description: June 11 – President Ford signs Executive Order 11921 adjusting emergency preparedness assignments amongst Federal departments and agencies.
  June 16 – Francis E. Meloy, Jr., the incoming U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, along with Robert Waring, the U.S. Economic Counselor,  and their driver, Zuhair Mohammed Moghrabi, are kidnapped by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members as they cross the Green Line, the division between Beirut's Christian and Muslim sectors. The bullet-riddled bodies of Meloy and Waring are found later that day on a beach in Ramlet al-Baida.
  June 17 – President Ford meets with  CIA Director George H.W. Bush, Chief of Staff Dick Cheney and Special Emissary to Lebanon L. Dean Brown, and others, during a meeting of the National Security Council to discuss the evacuation of Americans from Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. The following day, an initial group of approximately 200 American and Lebanese Nationals are evacuated.
  June 20 – President Ford orders the evacuation of American citizens from Lebanon. That day, 110 Americans and 157 nationals of other countries are transported from Lebanon to Piraeus, Greece aboard USS Spiegel Grove. Approximately 300 additional persons, including around 150 Americans, are evacuated on July 27, aboard USS Coronado, and also taken to Piraeus Greece.
caption: President Ford monitors the evacuation of American citizens from Beirut, Lebanon, June 20, 1976
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