James Millard Oakes



James Millard Oakes was a former member of the United States Navy and one of the more infamous citizens to disappear in The Vanishing. Oakes disappeared in 1946 when he left for Rapture.

Life in Rapture
Little is known of Oakes' life in Rapture. However, thanks to materials that Mark Meltzer found in the former laboratory of Orrin Oscar Lutwidge we do know that he was a supporter of Atlas and fought in the Civil War. Oakes hung around with an artist woman named Catherine and saved Lutwidge when he came under attack shortly after his arrival in Rapture. After this Lutwidge began to Oakes as "the white knight", much to his bemusement. Uncertain of Lutwidge's loyalty (and his sanity), Oakes injected Lutwidge with what he called "Sinclair Sauce" (an unknown plasmid or tonic) so that he would be indisputably "one of them".

James Millard Oakes Society
After his disappearance, a fringe right-wing group calling themselves the James Millard Oakes Society emerged. This group was obsessed with various conspiracy theories linking disappearances in the Vanishing to cloak and dagger subversion on the part of the Soviet Union. Oakes became the public face of this group, appearing on their various pamphlets and newsletters.

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