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Bobby Maxwell
Date of death	1976 San Francisco, California San Francisco, California San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
Occupation/Title:	Radical Political radicalism The term political radicalism denotes political principles focused on altering social structures through revolutionary means and changing value systems in fundamental ways... /Vietnam veteran Vietnam veteran Vietnam veteran is a phrase used to describe someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War.The term has been used to describe veterans who were in the armed forces of South Vietnam, the United States armed forces, and countries allied to them, whether or...
Status:	Deceased
Portrayed by:	DeVeren Bookwalter DeVeren Bookwalter DeVeren Bookwalter was a theatre actor and director who became the first person to win three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for his production, direction and performance in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Globe Playhouse in 1975.Bookwalter served as a member of the board of trustees of the...

Bobby Maxwell is a fictional villain and the main antagonist in the 1976 film, The Enforcer

The Enforcer (1976 film)

The Enforcer is a 1976 American film, and the third in the Dirty Harry film series. Directed by James Fargo, it stars Clint Eastwood as Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Tyne Daly as Inspector Kate Moore and DeVeren Bookwalter as terrorist leader/main antagonist Bobby Maxwell.-Plot:In Marin County,...

portrayed by DeVeren Bookwalter

DeVeren Bookwalter

DeVeren Bookwalter was a theatre actor and director who became the first person to win three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for his production, direction and performance in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Globe Playhouse in 1975.Bookwalter served as a member of the board of trustees of the...

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In the film, Maxwell is revealed to be a Vietnam War veteran, most likely suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Posttraumaticstress disorder is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma. This event may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else, or to one's own or someone else's physical, sexual, or psychological integrity,...

. He is the leader of the People's Revolutionary Strike Force. The motives of his group are eliminating law and political officials to give the people more power. He is first seen when one of the girls in his group lures two gas company men to the hills and he kills them both. He is next seen when his group steals some explosives and cuts Digeorgio's throat. Afterwards, he is seen kidnapping the mayor. His final appearance is on his island when his remaining people go against Harry Callahan and Inspector Moore. He shoots Moore in the chest twice and takes the mayor to the guard tower. There, he fires his weapon and tries to find Callahan. Harry picks up a rocket launcher

Shoulder-launched missile weapon

A shoulder-fired missile, shoulder-launched missile or man-portable missile is a projectile fired at a target, small enough to be carried by a single person, and fired while held on one's shoulder...

, calls out Maxwell's name, and fires. With one last scream, Maxwell gets hit with the rocket and is blown away. Not long afterwards, an SFPD helicopter

Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by one or more engine-driven rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forwards, backwards, and laterally...

flies in and broadcasts the message that Maxwell's demands have been met.

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