Lending Library
OPB is pleased to offer the Lending Library as a benefit to Cornerstone Society, President’s Council, and Wyllis Johnson Legacy Society members as well as OPB Business Partners. Now you may enjoy viewing or listening to your favorite programs at your convenience.
Members and Partners may borrow up to 2 items at a time for up to 21 days, at which time you simply drop the item in the mail using the envelope and postage provided. If the item you have selected is currently on loan, we will be happy to reserve it for you. We hope you enjoy this service.
Your Request List

How to use our online request form
  • · Click "Details / Add to list" to get a full description of a program.
  • · If you decide you would like to check out a program, click the "Add to Request List" button at the bottom of the detail page.
  • · You may continue browsing and add up to two items to your request list.
  • · When you are ready to check out, click "Check Out" from the bottom of your Request List.
  • · On the next page, select your OPB membership status from the pull-down menu.
  • · Enter your shipping/contact information and any comments you may have.
  • · Click the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page and your request will be on its way.
For more information or to select by phone:
If you're a Business Partner, please e-mail Lori Bernet or call 503.293.1950.
If you're a Cornerstone Society, President's Council or Wyllis Johnson Legacy Society member, please e-mail Holly Forrette or call 503.293.1956.

Lending Library

A Service for OPB Cornerstone Members and Business Partners

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: FDR(Checked-out)
This is a portrait of one of the most extraordinary personalities ever elected to the presidency. Perhaps the most important American leader of this century, FDR served as president longer than anyone before or since and led America through...
(4 VHS)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Fidel Castro(Available)
Fidel Castro has survived U.S. hostility, an invasion, several CIA assassination attempts and an economic embargo. His face has become an iconic image worldwide, yet the man himself remains an enigma to all but a few. Through interviews with...
(1 VHS)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Influenza 1918(Available)
Drawing on remarkable archival photographs, film footage and interviews with survivors and medical historians, Influenza 1918 tells the powerful story of the worst epidemic in American history that killed over 600,000 people.
(1 VHS)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Riding the Rails(Available)
Through a combination of witness accounts, archival footage and newsreel interviews, "Riding the Rails" tells the story of the 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains during the Great Depression.
(1 VHS)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Surviving the Dust Bowl(Checked-out)
Featuring poignant interviews with witnesses and archival film footage and photographs, "Surviving the Dust Bowl" tells the heart-wrenching story of a people who endured a series of scourges during America's worst ecological disaster.
(1 VHS)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: TR(Available)
This biographical documentary examines the life of Theodore Roosevelt - cowboy, soldier, explorer, scientist, a world authority on large mammals and small birds, the author of 36 books and 150,000 letters, and president of the United States...
(2 VHS)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Duel(Available)
This fascinating documentary examines the bizarre circumstances that prompted the Vice President of the United States and a former Secretary of the Treasury, two of the most famous politicians of their time, to square off and shoot pistols...
(1 VHS)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - FDR(Available)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt restored hope to a country that had lost it, led the nation during the greatest war in history, and championed the common man. FDR goes beyond the familiar words and images to explore his hidden dimensions. What...
(10 DVD)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - GEORGE H.W. BUSH(Available)
When George H.W. Bush left the Oval Office in 1992, rejected after one tumultuous presidential term, this thirty-year career in public service came to an abrupt and unexpected end. Despite soaring approval rating following military victory...
(10 DVD)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - JIMMY CARTER(Available)
JIMMY CARTER traces the ascent of an ambitious country from a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia, to the Oval Office;it examines the failing of Carter's political leadership in the context of the turbulent 1970's; and explores the role religion...
(10 DVD)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - LBJ(Available)
This four-part series covers one of America's most controversial presidents: LBJ's early days, to the assumption of the presidency after JFK's assassination; LBJ's social legislation that includes Civil Rights, his "War on Poverty" and "Great...
(2 VHS)

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Presidents Collection - LBJ(Available)
Here is the definitive film biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, one of the most perplexing and fascinating figures ever to reach the Oval Office. LBJ presents the full sweep of his amazing life: an impoverished childhood in central Texas...
(10 DVD)

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