Breadboard specific cut and formed wires such as these: https://www.amazon.com/AUSTOR-Lengths-Assorted-Preformed-Bre... [1] will make both wiring, and verifying, bread-boarded circuits much easier. Plus the actual circuit will be much neater with these wires interconnecting everything.
[1] just the first example I found from a quick search
[1] just the first example I found from a quick search