SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           Washington, D.C. 20549-1004





                                    FORM 8-K
                    CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OF
                       THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934



          Date of Report
(Date of earliest event reported) June 12, 2000
                                  -----------------




                           GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
                   -----------------------------------------------------
                   (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)




      STATE OF DELAWARE                 1-143                 38-0572515
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(State or other jurisdiction   (Commission File Number)   (I.R.S. Employer
 of incorporation)                                        Identification No.)




300 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan                    48265-3000
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  (Address of principal executive offices)                   (Zip Code)







Registrant's telephone number, including area code       (313) 556-5000
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ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS

   On June 12, 2000,  General  Motors  Corporation  (GM) issued a press  release
announcing it will  contribute  approximately  $5.6 billion of GM Class H common
stock to certain of its employee-benefit plans. The release is as follows:

GM ANNOUNCES $5.6 BILLION CONTRIBUTION TO EMPLOYEE-BENEFIT PLANS

DETROIT - General Motors (NYSE:  GM, GMH) today announced that on June 12, 2000,
it contributed to certain of its employee-benefit  plans a total of 60.5 million
shares of GM Class H common  stock,  valued by the  independent  trustee for the
employee-benefit  plans at  approximately  $5.6  billion.  GM  contributed  53.6
million shares of Class H stock to its U.S.  Hourly-Rate  Employees Pension Plan
(Hourly  Pension Plan) and 6.9 million  shares to its Welfare  Benefit  Trust, a
voluntary employees'  beneficiary  association trust established  principally to
fund health-care and life-insurance benefits for GM's hourly retirees.

The  employee-benefit-plan  contributions are part of GM's previously  announced
plan to restructure its economic interest in Hughes.  These  contributions  will
reduce GM's annual pension  expense and other  post-retirement  employee-benefit
expense,  improve GM's  operating  earnings,  and will  strengthen  GM's overall
financial position.

The newly  contributed  shares of Class H stock will be  managed  by U.S.  Trust
Company  of New  York  (U.S.  Trust),  an  independent  trustee  for each of the
employee-benefit  plans.  U.S.  Trust has acted as trustee of the Hourly Pension
Plan with respect to its holdings of Electronic Data Systems  Corporation stock,
formerly GM's Class E common stock, since 1995. U.S. Trust has indicated that it
intends to manage the Class H common stock in  substantially  the same manner as
it  has   managed   the  EDS  stock  held  by  the  Hourly   Pension   Plan.   A
registration-rights agreement with GM will enable U.S. Trust to sell the Class H
stock in a manner  consistent  with  maintaining an orderly market for the stock
and maximizing the value of the plans' investment in the stock.

Recent History of GM Class H Stock

As part of GM's  restructuring  of its  economic  interest in Hughes,  which was
announced in February 2000,  General Motors also recently completed a successful
exchange offer. Through the exchange offer, GM effectively  repurchased about 14
percent of its  outstanding GM $1-2/3 par value common stock in exchange for the
issuance of approximately $9 billion of Class H common stock.  This reduction in
the number of GM $1-2/3  shares  outstanding  is expected to have a  significant
favorable impact on GM $1-2/3 earnings per share going forward.

As a result of the exchange offer and employee-benefit-plan  contributions,  the
economic  interest in Hughes  attributable  to GM $1-2/3 par value  common stock
will decline from about 62 percent to approximately 30 percent, and the economic
interest in Hughes represented by outstanding Class H stock will correspondingly
increase from about 38 percent to  approximately  70 percent,  in each case on a
fully diluted basis. Hughes continues to be a wholly owned subsidiary of General
Motors.

Separately,  as announced  June 6, 2000,  the GM Board of  Directors  declared a
three-for-one  split of the GM Class H stock in the form of a 200-percent  stock
dividend.  The dividend is payable on June 30, 2000, to GM Class H  stockholders
of record on June 13, 2000, and will make the Class H stock  substantially  more
liquid and accessible to a broader range of investors.

Class H stock is a  tracking  stock  of GM  designed  to  provide  holders  with
financial returns based on the financial performance of GM's wholly owned Hughes
Electronics subsidiary.
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                                    SIGNATURE

Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of  1934,  the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


                                            GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
                                            --------------------------
                                                    (Registrant)
Date    June 13, 2000
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                                       By
                                            s/Peter R. Bible
                                            -------------------------------
                                            (Peter R. Bible,
                                             Chief Accounting Officer)














































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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           Washington, D.C. 20549-1004

                                    FORM 8-K
                    CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OF
                       THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

          Date of Report
(Date of earliest event reported) June 12, 2000
                                  -----------------

                           GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
                   -----------------------------------------------------
                   (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

      STATE OF DELAWARE                 1-143                 38-0572515
----------------------------   -----------------------    -------------------
(State or other jurisdiction   (Commission File Number)   (I.R.S. Employer
 of incorporation)                                        Identification No.)

300 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan                    48265-3000
--------------------------------------------                 ----------
  (Address of principal executive offices)                   (Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code       (313) 556-5000
                                                         --------------

                                      - 1 -
ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS

   On June 12, 2000,  General  Motors  Corporation  (GM) issued a press  release
announcing it will  contribute  approximately  $5.6 billion of GM Class H common
stock to certain of its employee-benefit plans. The release is as follows:

GM ANNOUNCES $5.6 BILLION CONTRIBUTION TO EMPLOYEE-BENEFIT PLANS

DETROIT - General Motors (NYSE:  GM, GMH) today announced that on June 12, 2000,
it contributed to certain of its employee-benefit  plans a total of 60.5 million
shares of GM Class H common  stock,  valued by the  independent  trustee for the
employee-benefit  plans at  approximately  $5.6  billion.  GM  contributed  53.6
million shares of Class H stock to its U.S.  Hourly-Rate  Employees Pension Plan
(Hourly  Pension Plan) and 6.9 million  shares to its Welfare  Benefit  Trust, a
voluntary employees'  beneficiary  association trust established  principally to
fund health-care and life-insurance benefits for GM's hourly retirees.

The  employee-benefit-plan  contributions are part of GM's previously  announced
plan to restructure its economic interest in Hughes.  These  contributions  will
reduce GM's annual pension  expense and other  post-retirement  employee-benefit
expense,  improve GM's  operating  earnings,  and will  strengthen  GM's overall
financial position.

The newly  contributed  shares of Class H stock will be  managed  by U.S.  Trust
Company  of New  York  (U.S.  Trust),  an  independent  trustee  for each of the
employee-benefit  plans.  U.S.  Trust has acted as trustee of the Hourly Pension
Plan with respect to its holdings of Electronic Data Systems  Corporation stock,
formerly GM's Class E common stock, since 1995. U.S. Trust has indicated that it
intends to manage the Class H common stock in  substantially  the same manner as
it  has   managed   the  EDS  stock  held  by  the  Hourly   Pension   Plan.   A
registration-rights agreement with GM will enable U.S. Trust to sell the Class H
stock in a manner  consistent  with  maintaining an orderly market for the stock
and maximizing the value of the plans' investment in the stock.

Recent History of GM Class H Stock

As part of GM's  restructuring  of its  economic  interest in Hughes,  which was
announced in February 2000,  General Motors also recently completed a successful
exchange offer. Through the exchange offer, GM effectively  repurchased about 14
percent of its  outstanding GM $1-2/3 par value common stock in exchange for the
issuance of approximately $9 billion of Class H common stock.  This reduction in
the number of GM $1-2/3  shares  outstanding  is expected to have a  significant
favorable impact on GM $1-2/3 earnings per share going forward.

As a result of the exchange offer and employee-benefit-plan  contributions,  the
economic  interest in Hughes  attributable  to GM $1-2/3 par value  common stock
will decline from about 62 percent to approximately 30 percent, and the economic
interest in Hughes represented by outstanding Class H stock will correspondingly
increase from about 38 percent to  approximately  70 percent,  in each case on a
fully diluted basis. Hughes continues to be a wholly owned subsidiary of General
Motors.

Separately,  as announced  June 6, 2000,  the GM Board of  Directors  declared a
three-for-one  split of the GM Class H stock in the form of a 200-percent  stock
dividend.  The dividend is payable on June 30, 2000, to GM Class H  stockholders
of record on June 13, 2000, and will make the Class H stock  substantially  more
liquid and accessible to a broader range of investors.

Class H stock is a  tracking  stock  of GM  designed  to  provide  holders  with
financial returns based on the financial performance of GM's wholly owned Hughes
Electronics subsidiary.
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                                    SIGNATURE

Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of  1934,  the
registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                            GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
                                            --------------------------
                                                    (Registrant)
Date    June 13, 2000
        -----------------
                                       By
                                            s/Peter R. Bible
                                            -------------------------------
                                            (Peter R. Bible,
                                             Chief Accounting Officer)

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