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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 Julie Arnzen or call 503.977.7765.

Lending Library

A Service for OPB Cornerstone Members and Business Partners

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American Experience: 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: LBJ, The Presidents Collection(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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American Experience: NIXON, The Presidents Collection(Available)
NIXON tells the complete story of the rise and fall of one of our most powerful and controversial presidents. From his boyhood in Yorba Linda, California, to his over-whelming victory in the 1972 election and his resignation just two years...
(10 DVD)

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American Experience: Nixon(Available)
Richard Milhouse Nixon was a man of contradictions, grand visions and petty grievances, an anti-communist crusader who used the power of his office to reach for a bold vision of world peace - and to undermine his political enemies.
(2 VHS)

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American Experience: Panama Canal(Available)
This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage, interviews with canal workers and firsthand accounts of life in the Canal Zone, unravels the remarkable story of one of the world's most significant...
(1 DVD)

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American Experience: REAGAN, The Presidents Collection(Available)
When he left the White House in 1989, Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents of the century. The program follows Reagan's life from his itinerant boyhood in Illinois to his battle with "communist agitators" in the Screen Actors...
(10 DVD)

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American Experience: Race to the Moon(Available)
On Christmas Eve 1968, one of the largest audiences in television history tuned in to an extraordinary sight: a live telecast of the moon's surface as seen from Apollo 8, the first manned space flight to leave Earth's gravitational pull and...
(1 DVD)

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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: Roads to Memphis(Available)
This is the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April 1968. The film...
(1 DVD)

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American Experience: Silicon Valley(Checked-out)
A startling announcement pulsated through a suburban garage in Santa Clara County, California, on October 4, 1957. There, some of the young founders of a new semiconductor company were busy talking to silicon suppliers, hounding realtors...
(1 DVD)

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American Experience: Stonewall Uprising(Available)
Stonewall Uprising explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before...
(1 DVD)

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American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl(Available)
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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