John Fitzgerald Byers was one of the three Lone Gunmen (the others being Richard Langly and Melvin Frohike). (TXF: "E.B.E.", et al.) The son of Bertram Roosevelt Byers, he was named after President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose assassination also provided the Lone Gunmen with their collective name. (TLG: "Pilot"; TXF: "Unusual Suspects") Unlike his publishing partners, he was a confident, skilled ice-skater and was well versed in medical terms and procedures. (TXF: "Apocrypha", "One Breath", et al.) He also wore suits more often than the other Lone Gunmen did. (TXF: "E.B.E.", et al.) Byers died with his two closest associates in 2002, sacrificing his own life in order to protect the world from a bio-terrorist. (TXF: "Jump the Shark")