[1] Taber was born in Chicago in 1919, and grew up in Detroit and Dundee, Illinois, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
[1] Taber traveled to Cuba in the late 1950s as a CBS investigative journalist, accompanying Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and their troops, who forced Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista to flee the country.
[2] Taber founded the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPFCC), characterized on the record of 1961 United States Senate hearings "as serving to glorify the Castro government and acting as its publicity agent".
[3][4] Taber also covered the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961, joint to the government forces as a journalist, according to Cuban photographer Ernesto Fernández.
In it, Taber examines guerilla patterns in Cuba, China, Algeria, Indochina, Ireland, Israel, Cyprus, the Philippines, Malaya, and Greece, among others.