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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: THE KENNEDYS, The Presidents Collection(Available)
THE KENNEDYS explores the building of the Kennedy legend. This production is the first comprehensive documentary look at the shaping of the Kennedy fortune and dynasty by the family's patriarch and master builder Joseph P. Kennedy. His expectations...
(10 DVD)

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American Experience: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, The Presidents Collection(Available)
Brash and aggressive, Theodore Roosevelt embodied America at the turn of the century. He was a world authority on birds and large mammals, a cowboy, soldier, explorer, scientist-and president by the age of 42. Born into wealth, Roosevelt...
(10 DVD)

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American Experience: TRUMAN, The Presidents Collection(Available)
TRUMAN traces the unlikey rise of a gritty American original. Taking over after Franklin Roosevelt's death shocked the nation, Truman faced some of the biggest crises of the century. He would end the war with German, use the atomic bomb...
(10 DVD)

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American Experience: The Berlin Airlift(Available)
In 1948, the Soviet Union blocked access to West Berlin, starving the population and choking commerce. Allied forces refused to cede the city, and for nearly a year, supplied two million civilians and 20,000 allied solders entirely from the...
(1 DVD)

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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 Great Famine(Available)
The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Five million Soviet...
(1 DVD)

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American Experience: The Kennedys(Available)
From Joseph Kennedy's rise on Wall Street and then in government, through John Kennedy's presidency to Edward Kennedy's fall at Chappaquiddick and eventual withdrawal from the 1980 presidential race, The Kennedys explores the building of...
(2 VHS)

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American Experience: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer(Available)
J. Robert Oppenheimer's life and legacy are inextricably linked to America's most famous top-secret initiative - the Manhattan Project. But after World War II, this brilliant and intense scientist fell from the innermost circles of American...
(1 DVD)

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American Experience: Victory in the Pacific(Available)
Emmy Nominated! AMERICAN EXPERIENCE examines the final months of the war and looks at the escalation of bloodletting from the vantage point of the Japanese and the Americans and decisions made by leaders on both sides that finally ended the...
(1 DVD)

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American Experience: Vietnam, A Television History(Available)
A six-year project from conception to completion, this eleven-hour DVD collection carefully analyzes the costs and consequences of this controversial but intriguing war. From the first episode to the last, it provides a detailed visual and...
(4 DVD)

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American Experience: WILSON, The Presidents Collection(Available)
WOODROW WILSON tells the story of a professor who became one of America's greatest presidents. It's the tale of an emotionally complex man who craved affection and demanded unquestioned loyalty. And it's a fascinating portrait of a towering...
(10 DVD)

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American Experience: Walt Whitman(Available)
He is today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot and faithful advocate of democracy. His name graces shopping malls, highway rest stops, and local high schools. He has adherents around the globe...
(1 DVD)

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