Lone gunman theory

The Lone gunman theory (a.k.a. the "lone nut theory") is the nickname given to the Warren Commission theory that United States President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a single "lone gunman" named Lee Harvey Oswald who fired only three shots, one of which being the single bullet theory shot that wounded Kennedy and Governor John Connally. The Commission report stated that Oswald was a disturbed man, whose radical political views and depression had led him to shoot the President.

In the late 1970s, the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that President Kennedy was "most likely killed as the result of a conspiracy."

As a plot device on the FOX Network's popular conspiracy drama "The X-Files," protagonist Fox Mulder often solicited the aid of a small group of independent, underground intelligence specialists who chose for their group and newsletter name the ironically pluralized "lone gunmen". "The Lone Gunmen" became a spin-off tv show in 2001, documenting the group's activities independent of the X-Files, but was cancelled in its first season. Ironically, the first episode of "The Lone Gunmen" (shown just before the actual 9/11 attacks by terrorists within the U.S.) had a storyline of a remote controlled commercial jet striking a World Trade Center tower in New York City.